Now it's time to look at the storage device, which can supply a lot or less of power for a long time.
These systems can't send a lot of electricity to customers all day like pumping water and electricity and CAES.
The wheel stores energy by spinning.
For safety, the fastest consists of motor, suspended magnet, vacuum to Knicks friction and housing.
When the grid has additional power supply, it can run the motor of the rotating magnet.
When power is needed, the flywheel can spin it out in a few minutes to a few hours depending on the situation.
On the electric network, the wind wheel is a controller with excellent quality.
They are good at stabilizing the frequency, and as we mentioned, in the United States, the frequency swings above and below 60HzS. today.
When utilities use more power than customers, it will surge, and it will drop when utilities are reduced.
Because ISOs can control them directly, the flywheel changes this-
Eventually, they will automatically-
In this way, no one calls Jane of power plant A, waiting for her to raise or reduce the frequency of power generation to correct the frequency problem.
The response speed is fast, and the frequency can stabilize before the customer feels it.
In fact, several AmericanS. I. S. O.
USA is testing [flywheel pad]
Source: Beacon Power 1, Beacon Power 2, Beacon Power 3].
Another use of the flywheel is to stabilize the grid voltage.
What could change those solid high pressures? voltage lines?
Try the domino effect of power outages, tree collapse and power trains.
When local iron or light rail trains brake, they generate electricity, increase the voltage, and generate a surge in current locally.
When the train accelerates to drive out of the station, they draw electricity, lower the voltage, and draw electricity from other places.
The flywheel can absorb and release current so that the rest of the grid is not disturbed.
In fact, they have already tested on the subway in New York City. Source: Kennedy.
The flywheel is also great for wind farms, where they can turn on extra power during gusts and spit it out at death --
In this way, customers will not be affected by fluctuations.
The super capacitor is faster than the flywheel, storing energy by separating the charge.
They are "super" because they store more energy than conventional capacitors, but they work the same way.
When there is extra electricity, it can be used to push the charge on some metal plates onto other metal plates, leaving some positive and some negative.
When electricity is needed, the plate is neutral, the charge flows, and the current is generated.
Cabinets full of super capacitor buffer electric trains in cities such as Madrid and Beijing [Source: Siemens.
Superconductive magnetic energy storage (SMES) is another way to eliminate voltage drops and spikes in the power grid.
During the spike, the wire loop takes up additional current, and during the descent, the wire loop returns the current back to the grid.
Because the wire has little resistance, it stores the current with little loss. Next up --
The power storage system that many of us use every day: batteries.