MY-STORE: Multi-energY storage-Social, TechnO-economic, Regulatory and Environmental assessment under uncertainty

Completed

Other Power and Storage Technologies(Energy storage)

Basic and strategic applied research

SOCIAL SCIENCES (Business and Management Studies)
ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (Electrical and Electronic Engineering)
ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (Mechanical, Aeronautical and Manufacturing Engineering)

Sociological economical and environmental impact of energy (Environmental dimensions)
Sociological economical and environmental impact of energy (Policy and regulation)
Sociological economical and environmental impact of energy (Technology acceptance)
Sociological economical and environmental impact of energy (Other sociological economical and environmental impact of energy)

Dr P Mancarella
Electrical & Electronic Engineering
University of Manchester

Standard

EPSRC

01 January 2016

20 November 2019

47 months

£1,268,165

Energy

North West

Energy : Energy

Dr P Mancarella, Electrical & Electronic Engineering, University of Manchester

Dr P J Gilbert, Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering, University of Manchester
Professor J Milanovic, Electrical & Electronic Engineering, University of Manchester
Prof J Moriarty, Mathematical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London
Dr LF Ochoa, Electrical & Electronic Engineering, University of Manchester
Professor V Terzija, Electrical & Electronic Engineering, University of Manchester
Dr F R Wood, Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering, University of Manchester

Project Contact, Ove Arup & Partners Ltd
Project Contact, E.ON UK (formerly PowerGen)
Project Contact, Electricity North West Limited
Project Contact, Cambridge Curiosity and Imagination
Project Contact, Highview Power Storage
Project Contact, S&C Electric Europe Limited
Project Contact, ITM Power PLC
Project Contact, Hitachi Europe Ltd
Project Contact, EA Technology Limited
Project Contact, Upside Energy Limited

The UK has a commitment to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by at least 80% by 2050 relative to 1990 levels. While the potential role of energy storage to support integration of RES and help meet these challenging targets is well recognised, development of suitable frameworks that could facilitate energy storage rollout is still lacking. This is due to multiple factors that can be reflected in relevant Research Challenges that this project aims to address. These include:- An adequate understanding of commercial, regulatory, and institutional settings that can facilitate storage deployment;- Gaining insights into the true value streams that individual storage devices and coordinated portfolios of different technologies can generate for different parties across different markets;- Modelling interactions and maximising synergies among different energy vectors, and in particular heat and gas besides electricity, in order to unlock the flexibility of multi-energy forms of storage;- Developing suitable techno-economic models that can cater for the relevant operational and investment uncertainties that affect storage operators and owners and properly consider network and market constraints;- Understanding of wider impacts and social responses of different storage technologies, including public perceptions and environmental impacts.Our Vision is to develop a comprehensive framework, supported by innovative techno-economic modelling techniques capable to deal with different types of operational and planning uncertainties as well as network constraints, aimed at fostering sustainable business cases for different types of energy storage. Our analyses will assess how individual energy storage devices or aggregated portfolios of devices connected to different network levels can provide multiple simultaneous steady-state, dynamic services and power quality services and assess the relevant impact and value arising from these services for different market parties. We will consider explicitly multi-energy forms of storage, and in particular different types of electrical energy storage and thermal energy storage technologies, as well as innovative technologies such as power-to-gas. Our models will be tested in various technical, commercial and regulatory environments and taking into account socio-economic and environmental aspects, including public perceptions to different technologies.The MY-STORE project will strategically supplement the current research and bring a new perspective by providing much broader context, understanding and responses to the wide-scale deployment of energy storage. Our Ambition is to be the first in the world to provide such a comprehensive framework that can inform policy debates and the business community on the value and role of any storage technology in the transition towards more sustainable energy networks. Notwithstanding the generality of the framework put forward, the studies will focus on the UK situation, with time horizons from short to medium term (around 2035) and then opening up to 2050 and beyond. In fact, part of our ambitious plan is to bring out the value and role of energy storage and demonstrate how it could be possible to build business cases already in the shorter term and even for technologies that are commercially available today (e.g., thermal energy storage and different types of batteries), and then to facilitate development of appropriate regulatory and market environments for wider scale storage deployment (and possibly based on new technologies) to deal with the challenges of developing a truly low-carbon energy system. Our research will put the UK at the international forefront in this important field and provide a secure platform for future developments, also based on close collaboration with our industrial partners which represent a variety of established and emerging multi-energy storage technologies that are being already deployed or trialled in the UK

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