Abstract
This Special Issue is a collection of selected papers originating from the 2019 UK Energy Storage Conference (UKES) taken place on the 3rd–5th September 2019 in the Frederick Douglass Building at Newcastle Helix, Newcastle University and supported by the Supergen Energy Storage Network+, the Supergen Energy Networks Hub, the EPSRC National Centre for Energy Systems Integration, the Energy Storage Research Network (ESRN), and the STFC Network in Battery Science and Technology. The papers have been selected based on their quality and relevance to the areas covered in this journal, and include contributions from the Supergen Energy Storage Network + Early Career Researcher community. UKES is a bi-annual international conference, bringing together researchers from academia, industry, and policymakers across the whole field of energy storage and relevant themes, offering a unique opportunity for dissemination and collaboration through presentations, expert talks, and poster sessions to inspire future research. All papers in this Special Issue have been expanded and further developed from their original form to meet the criteria and high standards for inclusion in this journal.
In the last few years, the UKES conference has seen an increased number of papers that discuss Energy Storage in the context of grid applications. This is mainly due to the fact that energy storage, in its many forms, sizes, and locations, is seen by a wide range of stakeholders having a key role in future energy networks, by providing flexibility, enhancing affordability, security, and resilience against supply uncertainties, and addressing challenges related to climate change. Submitted papers evidence that over a small period of time, significant progress has been made in the research and development of models, tools, methods, and approaches that help to promote the role of storage in future networks; but also reveal that there are still significant challenges across a wide number of research areas that necessitate interactions between interplaying disciplines.
More particularly and in this Special Issue, we have gathered a selection of papers of the highest quality including academic and industrial contributions, in areas of technological breakthroughs in energy storage, network integration challenges, and management and control. These encompass a number of disciplines, from electrochemistry to power systems and from data sciences to economics.
In the last few years, the UKES conference has seen an increased number of papers that discuss Energy Storage in the context of grid applications. This is mainly due to the fact that energy storage, in its many forms, sizes, and locations, is seen by a wide range of stakeholders having a key role in future energy networks, by providing flexibility, enhancing affordability, security, and resilience against supply uncertainties, and addressing challenges related to climate change. Submitted papers evidence that over a small period of time, significant progress has been made in the research and development of models, tools, methods, and approaches that help to promote the role of storage in future networks; but also reveal that there are still significant challenges across a wide number of research areas that necessitate interactions between interplaying disciplines.
More particularly and in this Special Issue, we have gathered a selection of papers of the highest quality including academic and industrial contributions, in areas of technological breakthroughs in energy storage, network integration challenges, and management and control. These encompass a number of disciplines, from electrochemistry to power systems and from data sciences to economics.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 135-138 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | IET Smart Grid |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| Early online date | 30 Mar 2021 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Apr 2021 |
