SWARM - increasing households’ internal PV consumption and offering primary control power with distributed batteries

Abstract

This Research in Progress Paper deals with a simulation approach for a virtual mass storage composed of small distributed battery energy storage units, installed in households with a roof-top photovoltaic system. On the one hand the household’s internal consumption of photovoltaic energy is maximized and on the other hand primary control reserve power is provided by a central storage controller. This concept is academically approved and rolled out in the field within this project. First simulation results show a household’s benefit of installing a battery energy storage system and an accurate working of the implemented virtual mass storage.