Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) for Enhancing Renewables’ Integration and Grid Support Applications

Dear Colleagues,

Battery energy storage systems (BESSs) are progressively used for enhancing the performance of energy networks. Moreover, BESSs are used for supporting renewables integration, both in large scale and in residential applications.

BESSs are playing the role of efficient, flexible, and fast-reacting energy buffers, which allow for the decoupling of energy production and consumption in short to medium time frames. This is becoming especially important with the increasing penetration of volatile renewables and the appearance of new types of loads (e.g., EV charging, heat pumps, etc.).

Therefore, this Special Issue is focused on recent progress and developments in large-scale and residential battery energy storage systems for renewables integration and grid support applications.

Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:

• Field experiences from the operation of large-scale and residential BESS for various applications;
• New architectures of BESS;
• Smart methods of BESS optimal management and control;
• Emerging applications and business opportunities for BESS;
• Thermal management of BESS;
• Safety management, compliance with safety codes and standards;
• BESS diagnostics and prognostics.

Dr. Maciej Swierczynski
Prof. Daniel-Ioan Stroe
Guest Editors

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