Energy Storage is Not Whiskey - Blends are Best!
2024-07-09 15:00 - 16:30 (Europe/London) | Virtual event
This event took place on Tue, 9 Jul 2024 15:00 – 16:30 as part of Net-Zero Week 2024
Synopsis
Decarbonising energy requires that we reconcile the differences between natural demand (how much electricity we would use at any given time if there were no incentives to do differently) and supply.
Because much of our future primary energy supply will be drawn directly from renewables, the supply side resource will be quite variable. Several different measures are available to reconcile the two sides but of those and among these options, energy storage is very likely to play a hugely important role.
This webinar, which is part of Net-Zero Week, focuses on “the benefits of the blend”. In theory at least, we could operate a net-zero energy system using just one type of storage but modelling is increasingly showing that blends of multiple types of storage will provide the lowest-cost systems. In this webinar we will hear about the four main ranges of discharge-duration for energy storage and the technical solutions that suit each of those four ranges best.
Chair: Professor Seamus Garvey, University of Nottingham.

Seamus Garvey is a Professor of Mechanical at the University of Nottingham and an expert in the roles that energy storage solutions will achieve in net zero energy systems. He has been passionately vocal over almost 20 years on the elucidation of how mechanical energy storage can and will play a major role in the future and he leads a Task under the IEA Technology Collaboration Program on Energy Storage focused on medium-duration solutions.

Speakers:

Prof. Keith Pullen, CEO of Levistor Ltd.. Keith discussed the roles that flywheels can play in storing energy over very short periods – cycled millions of times
Dr. John Joseph Marie, Principal Analyst at The Faraday Institution. JJ addressed the expanding role that stationary batteries can serve in electricity grid support for times (mainly) below 10 hours.
Dr. Nerea Martinez Hipolito, Hydrogen Intelligence Service Research Manager at LCP Delta. Nerea focused on how hydrogen can balance-up supply and demand mismatches over very long timescales – typically exceeding 200 hours.

Download the presentations below

Professor Seamus Garvey – introduction to the event
Professor Keith Pullen – The roles of flywheels in storing energy over short periods
Dr John Joseph Marie – The role of stationary batteries in electricity grid support
Dr Nerea Martinez Hipolito – How hydrogen can balance supply and demand mismatches
Professor Seamus Garvey – The importance of Medium Duration Energy Storage

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