The ESS units with associated PCS have the potential to aid power quality, to manage reactive power flows and to reduce the peak demand / peak generation real power flows, through peak lopping. This has the potential to delay or reduce the need for traditional network reinforcement, thereby preventing the local DNO network from becoming a barrier to the deployment of low carbon technologies. In order to understand the operation of an ESS with relevant low carbon technologies such as solar PV and Electric Vehicles (EVs), Southern Electric Power Distribution has identified a site with established solar generation and electric vehicle charging points. Southern Electric Power Distribution is proposing to install 3 single phase 25 kW / 25 kWh lithium-ion batteries at this strategic location on the LV network.
In addition the following objectives have been established: