Initial Comparison of Lithium Battery and High-Temperature Thermal-Turbine Electricity Storage for 100% Wind and Solar Electricity Supply on Prince Edward Island

Due to fundamental temporal mismatches between renewable energy generation and demand load, a long-duration energy storage system is required to power Prince Edward Island’s (PEI) electricity system exclusively from on-island wind and solar resources. While a very large lithium battery is...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Andrew Swingler, Matthew Hall
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2018-12-01
Series:Energies
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/11/12/3470