IEEE 1999 International Conference on Power Electronics and Drive Systems, PEDS99, July 1999, Hong Kong.

Power Management Solutions for Energy Management, Power Quality and Environment using Battery Energy Storage Systems
D. Sutanto Department of Electrical Engineering, Hong Kong Polytechnic, Hong Kong Abstract The emergency of new breeds of power electronics and improved battery technology has created renewed interests in Battery Energy Storage System 9BESS). BESS is a modem cost-effective solution that can help both electric utilities and industrial & commercial businesses to meet the growing need of controlling peak energy usage, power quality and environmental problems. BESS provide electric utilities with alternatives to conventional storage technologies, such as pumped hydro. As a generation resource, a BESS can store off-peak energy and provide power when it is needed. As a distribution resource, a BESS can defer or possibly eliminate the need for new transmission or distribution lines, resulting in cost savings and greater asset utilisation. The incorporation of battery storage with renewable energy generators will provide greater grid stability and reliability, thus allowing increased use of these resources. In industrial and commercial applications, BESS is a controllable demand-side management option that can provide industrial manufacturing companies and commercial customers improved power quality, unintenuptible power, and energy management capability. This capability provides for power demand reduction and peaksaving by storing lower cost energy at night and using it during peak hours of the day when energy costs typically are much higher, while simultaneously protecting most economically critical and sensitive of customer loads by providing unintermptible power supply and active harmonic filtering. The talk will describe the current state-of-the-art Battery Energy Storage System, including a brief description of the most recently commissioned 20 MW Battery Energy Storage System in Puerto Rico. The talk will also discuss future potential of Battery Energy System utilising Electrical Vehicle Batteries, and research work at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in developing advanced Energy Storage Systems.

About the speaker Prof. D. Sutanto received his BEng and PhD from the University of Western Australia in 1977 and 1980, respectively. After his graduation, he joined GEC Projects Division (Australia) as a Power System Analyst. In 1982, he joined the School of Electrical Engineering at the University of New South Wales. Recently he joined the Hong Kong Polytechnic University where he is now a Professor in Electrical Engineering.

0-7803-j769-8/99/$10.000 1999IEEE

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