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Article

Charging Incentive Design with Minimum Price Guarantee for Battery Energy Storage Systems to Mitigate Grid Congestion

by
Yujiro Tanno
1,*,
Akihisa Kaneko
2,
Yu Fujimoto
2,
Yasuhiro Hayashi
1,
Yuji Hanai
3 and
Hideo Koseki
3
1
Department of Electrical Engineering and Bioscience, Waseda University, Tokyo 169-8555, Japan
2
Advanced Collaborative Research Organization for Smart Society, Waseda University, Tokyo 169-8555, Japan
3
Grid Innovation Research Laboratory, Central Research Institute of Power Industry, Yokosuka 240-0196, Japan
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Energies 2025, 18(11), 2840; https://doi.org/10.3390/en18112840
Submission received: 11 April 2025 / Revised: 24 May 2025 / Accepted: 27 May 2025 / Published: 29 May 2025
(This article belongs to the Topic Advances in Planning, Operation, Control/Protection, and Market of New Power Energy System)
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Abstract

The large-scale integration of renewable energy sources (RESs) has raised concerns regarding grid congestion in Japan. Battery energy storage systems (BESSs) can mitigate congestion by adjusting charging schedules; however, BESS owners basically prioritize market arbitrage, which may not be aligned with congestion mitigation. This paper proposes a charging incentive design to guide arbitrage-oriented BESS charging toward time periods that are effective for grid congestion mitigation. The system operator predicts congested hours and ensures that BESS owners can purchase electricity at the lowest daily market price. This design intends to shift the BESS charging time towards congestion periods. Because market prices tend to decline during congestion periods, the proposed method reduces the operator’s financial burden while encouraging congestion-mitigating charging behavior. Numerical simulations using a simplified Japanese east-side power system model demonstrate that the proposed method reduced the congestion mitigation costs by 3.86% and curtailed the RES output by 3.89%, compared to using no incentive method (current operation in Japan). Furthermore, additional payments to BESS owners accounted for only around 7% of the resulting cost savings, indicating that the proposed method achieved lower overall system operating costs.
Keywords: battery energy storage system; grid congestion; charging incentive battery energy storage system; grid congestion; charging incentive

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Tanno, Y.; Kaneko, A.; Fujimoto, Y.; Hayashi, Y.; Hanai, Y.; Koseki, H. Charging Incentive Design with Minimum Price Guarantee for Battery Energy Storage Systems to Mitigate Grid Congestion. Energies 2025, 18, 2840. https://doi.org/10.3390/en18112840

AMA Style

Tanno Y, Kaneko A, Fujimoto Y, Hayashi Y, Hanai Y, Koseki H. Charging Incentive Design with Minimum Price Guarantee for Battery Energy Storage Systems to Mitigate Grid Congestion. Energies. 2025; 18(11):2840. https://doi.org/10.3390/en18112840

Chicago/Turabian Style

Tanno, Yujiro, Akihisa Kaneko, Yu Fujimoto, Yasuhiro Hayashi, Yuji Hanai, and Hideo Koseki. 2025. "Charging Incentive Design with Minimum Price Guarantee for Battery Energy Storage Systems to Mitigate Grid Congestion" Energies 18, no. 11: 2840. https://doi.org/10.3390/en18112840

APA Style

Tanno, Y., Kaneko, A., Fujimoto, Y., Hayashi, Y., Hanai, Y., & Koseki, H. (2025). Charging Incentive Design with Minimum Price Guarantee for Battery Energy Storage Systems to Mitigate Grid Congestion. Energies, 18(11), 2840. https://doi.org/10.3390/en18112840

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