Wind power and energy storage
Norway has good wind conditions and a substantial wind power potential. The wind varies both year-on-year, between summer and winter, and from hour to hour. A power system with a good transmission capacity would easily be able to handle this variation by making sure that other production balanced these fluctuations.
If the transmission capacity is limited, with bottlenecks occurring from time to time in the grid, it may be relevant in periods of surplus wind power to store the excess energy instead of reducing the output level. Examples of such storage methods are the production of hydrogen, the use of surplus energy in pump-storage power plants, the use of batteries or compressed air. Other storage media may also be relevant.
This project will examine wind power and energy storage. The first part of the project will analyse the scale of the need for energy storage, while part two will assess how such storage can be realised and consider the pros and cons of the energy storage solutions identified.
Contact:
Terje Gjengedal, Statkraft/NTNU, tel: +47 9117 8799, email: terje.gjengedal@statkraft.no
Leon Notkevich, Statkraft, tel: +47 2406 7000, email: leon.notkevich@statkraft.no
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Contact person at Statkraft:
Astri Makita
Email: astrileonore.makita@statkraft.com
URL: http://www.statkraft.com/pro/career_centre/students/projects_and_theses.wind_power_and_energy_storageasp