Chapter 1

Energy Storage for Mitigating the Variability of Renewable Electricity Sources

Marc Beaudin; Hamidreza Zareipour; Anthony Schellenberg; William Rosehart    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 1N4

Abstract

Wind and solar power generation is growing quickly around the world, mainly to mitigate some of the negative environmental impacts of the electricity sector. However, the variability of these renewable sources of electricity poses technical and economical challenges when integrated on a large scale. Energy storage is being widely regarded as one of the potential solutions to deal with the variations of variable renewable electricity sources ...

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