This is a summary of all of EPRI’s Energy Systems and Climate Analysis (ESCA) Group’s research on the economics of electricity storage technologies, including work in progress. Web links are included where available. Publications marked with an * are available to the public free of charge, or are published in academic journals. For a full list of ESCA research, please visit the ESCA public website at http://esca.epri.com/research.html. To receive the ESCA group’s quarterly newsletter with research updates, please email your request to eea@epri.com.
ESCA storage research focuses on use of storage for energy arbitrage, capacity value, and for spinning or non-spinning reserves, and takes into account the feedback effects of increasing storage penetration on electricity prices and how storage changes the economics of generation technologies. There are other potential value streams for storage, such as frequency regulation and transmission deferrals, which are the subject of research by other programs at EPRI.