Energy Storage solutions for Zero Carbon 2050 electric distribution systems

该项目将解决公用事业公司采用电力存储技术所面临的系统性经济，监管和技术障碍。多伦多水电系统有限公司和Halton Hills Hydro等公用事业公司有兴趣探索和开发解决方案，以进一步支持可再生能源，避免昂贵的公用事业资产升级，并将其配电系统发展为智能，智能和强大。该项目由瑞尔森城市能源中心的研究人员领导，提出了电力存储技术作为解决方案之一，可用于减少公用事业资产需求和优化运营，增强电网的弹性，并使能源资源多样化，包括可再生能源生产的能源。该项目的三个总体目标旨在：（1）以最低的资产成本提供可靠和有弹性的电力供应，（2）提高电网灵活性和智能性，使供应质量最佳，（3）使分布式能源能够在当地获得能源，以便更多的可再生能源签约并加入电网。在我们合作伙伴的投入下，该项目在五个子项目中实现了这些目标，这些子项目探索了最适合存储的新费率设计、辅助服务和聚合方案。将开发和测试算法和软件，以优化规划和运营各种能源。除了通过提高供电质量和可靠性降低电力总成本，使配电设施智能化、智能化和稳健化，从而改善客户体验和选择外，该项目还将支持加拿大在2050年之前实现净零排放电网的努力，并实现其2030年可持续发展目标。由于加拿大需要生产两倍于今天的电力最终能源使用百分比，以及两到三倍于现在的非排放电力，该项目的成果将通过增强供应可靠性，弹性（面对极端天气）和经济可及性（降低成本）为加拿大经济做出贡献。促进更大的储能吸收是通过可再生能源实现深度电气化的途径。

This project will address systemic economic, regulatory, and technological barriers facing the adoption of electricity storage technologies by utility companies. Utilities such as Toronto Hydro Electric Systems Ltd. and Halton Hills Hydro are interested in exploring and developing solutions to further support renewables, avoid expensive utility asset upgrades, and evolve their distribution systems to be smart, intelligent, and robust. Led by researchers at the Ryerson Centre for Urban Energy, the project proposes electricity storage technology as one such solution, which can be deployed to reduce utility asset requirements and optimise operations, enhance resilience in the grid and enable the diversification of energy resources to include energy produced by renewable sources. The project's 3 overarching goals aim to: (1) provide reliable and resilient electric power supply with minimal asset costs, (2) increase grid flexibility and smarts such that supply quality is the best, and (3) enable distributed energy resources to source energy locally such that more renewables are contracted and added to the grid. With input from our partners, the project pursues these goals in five sub-projects, which explore new rate designs, ancillary services, and aggregation schemes that best fit storage. Algorithms and software will be developed and tested to optimally plan and operate a diverse range of energy resources. Apart from reducing the total cost of electricity and making distribution utilities intelligent, smart and robust through improved power supply quality and reliability such that customer experience and choices improve, the project will support efforts in Canada to achieve a net-zero emissions grid before 2050 and meet its 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. With Canada needing to produce double of today's percentage of final energy use from electricity, and two to three times as much non-emitting power as it does now, the project's outcomes will contribute to the Canadian economy though enhanced supply reliability, resilience (to face extreme weather), and economic accessibility (lower cost). Facilitating greater storage uptake is the pathway to deep electrification via renewables.