Evaluation of energy storage technologies for integration with renewable electricity: Quantifying expert opinions

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Solving climate change and the associated need for increasing renewable energy supply make energy storage a critical technological component of the future energy landscape. Research to build more reliable and cost-effective energy storage technologies is now on the rise. As a result, many new technologies and applications are evolving and competing. This paper presents a method to evaluate and select energy storage technologies for investor-owned or public utilities. For this purpose, energy storage applications which could benefit wind power in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States are identified through internal interviews and surveys with experts at the federal wholesale power marketing agency in Portland, Oregon. The study employs a technology evaluation process integrating fuzzy Delphi method, analytic hierarchy process and fuzzy consistent matrix. The result shows that compressed air storage is the most promising technology for sustainable growth of renewable energy in the region. © 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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Daim, T. U., Li, X., Kim, J., & Simms, S. (2012). Evaluation of energy storage technologies for integration with renewable electricity: Quantifying expert opinions. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 3, 29–49. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eist.2012.04.003

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