JiSMART2021—044: The Sharing Potential of Battery Energy Storage System in a Community: A Review

Abstract

Energy sharing have increased opportunities to improve the local energy self-consumption rate and the spreadability of RES in the future. But with direct energy sharing, communities still face the issue of not being able to consume all the surplus energy. Thus, Battery sharing is an expected solution for the local surplus renewable energy. Many studies suggested solutions for proposing battery sharing, yet the existing literature is dispersed across different scales, and levels. Previous studies also lack a comprehensive overview of different application strategies of battery sharing in the community. Towards this end, this study investigated the key factors and main technologies for battery sharing in the community through a comprehensive literature review. As a result, the techno-economic performance brought by optimal sizing and number of different BESS sharing structures and the interaction between aggregator-managed BESS and smart grid is highly underestimated. This paper provides a future direction of the battery sharing towards a neutral city.