Novel Business Models & Integration Strategies for Energy Storage

Dear colleagues,

A transition to a cleaner energy mix challenges the flexibility of contemporary electricity systems to facilitate large-scale integration of RES power generation. The desired flexibility to that end reflects upon the elements of energy storage, vector coupling, systems’ integration, and advanced energy management. At the same time, owing to the acccelerating transformation of electricity markets on the one hand and the phase-out of support schemes for RES on the other, different types of energy storage services and applications have emerged across the entire electricity chain, focusing on but not limited to RES managemenent, and including arbitrage, transmission/distribution deferral, congestion management, black start, frequency/voltage regulation, and conventional power generation management, together with in-front of/behind the meter, distributed/centralized, stationary/mobile, and grid-tied/off-grid applications. On the other hand, life-cycle storage costs still remain high for the majority of modern storage technologies, with the exception of more mature ones, such as pumped hydro and compressed air. As such, research work on the development of effective integration strategies and novel business models for energy storage is nowadays considered to be of high importance and relevance for a wide spectrum of applications and actors.

Accordingly, this Special Issue seeks to contribute to the wider energy storage agenda by focusing on modern energy storage services and portfolios and inviting papers looking at the design, implementation, and evaluation of relevant business models and integration strategies for different storage technologies, applications, and market actors, with an emphasis on the support of RES.

Dr. Dimitrios Zafirakis
Guest Editor

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