Method for providing control power by an energy store by using tolerances in the determination of the frequency deviation

• US 9,667,071 B2
• Filed: 10/29/2012
• Issued: 05/30/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 11/10/2011
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Steag Power Saar GmbH (KSBG Kommunale Beteiligungsgesellschaft GmbH & Company KG), Evonik Degussa GmbH (Rag-Stiftung)
• Original Assignee: Steag Power Saar GmbH (KSBG Kommunale Beteiligungsgesellschaft GmbH & Company KG), Evonik Degussa GmbH (Rag-Stiftung)
• Inventors: Kolligs, Carsten, Brezski, Holger, Deis, Wolfgang, Igel, Michael, Flemming, Anna, Gamrad, Dennis, Cochet, Sebastien, Winternheimer, Stefan, Markowz, Georg, Schweissthal, Wolfgang
• Primary Examiner(s): Boateng, Alexis A
• Application Number:
  US14/357,313
• Publication Number:
  US 20140327404A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,674 Days
• Field of Search: 320128, 320132, 320101, 320133, 320109, 320137, 320107, 320116, 320118, 320136, 320160, 32476401, 324433
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 3/241 The oscillation concerning frequency
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 3/32 using batteries with converting means
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/00 Circuit arrangements for charging or depolarising batteries or for supplying loads from batteries
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/0013 acting upon several batteries simultaneously or sequentially H02J7/1423 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 5/10 with arrangements for protection from ingress, e.g. water or fingers
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 5/068 having a pressure compensation device, e.g. membrane venting means H05K5/0213

Abstract

A method for providing control power for an electricity network in which at least one energy store connected to the electricity network supplies energy to the electricity network as required and/or takes up energy from the electricity network as required, the control power being delivered in dependence on a frequency deviation from a setpoint value of a network frequency, a tolerance with respect to the frequency deviation being used to set a charging state of the energy store at a same time as providing the control power by the energy store. A device for carrying out such a method includes a control system and an energy store, the device being connected or connectable to an electricity network, the control system being connected to the energy store and controlling the control power that is given off and/or taken up by the energy store.

Claims

1. A method for providing control power, the method comprising:

delivering the control power based on a frequency deviation from a setpoint value of a network frequency to discharge or change an energy store for supplying energy to an electricity network or taking up energy from the electricity network respectively, a charging state of the energy store being in one of (i) an upper charging state, (ii) a medium charging state, and (iii) a low charging state, amount of the charge in the medium charging state being less than amount of charge in the upper charging state and the amount of charge in the medium charging state being more than amount of charge in the low charging state, wherein

the delivered control power is varied within a tolerance with respect to the frequency deviation to discharge or charge the energy store to move the charging state toward the medium charging state.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the tolerance of an amount of the control power to be delivered as a function of the frequency deviation is used to set the charging state of the energy store.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the frequency deviation from the setpoint value of the network frequency is determined and a need for positive and/or negative control power is determined from the frequency deviation.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein

the frequency deviation is measured with a greater accuracy than is necessary for delivering the control power, or with an accuracy of at least ±

8 MHz, or at least ±

4 MHz, or at least ±

2 MHz, or at least ±

1 MHz.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the charging state of the energy store is set by the energy store feeding into the electricity network a greater control power, lying within the tolerance, or taking up from the electricity network a smaller control power, lying within the tolerance, in a case that the charging state of the energy store lies above a first limit value, and/or the energy store feeding into the electricity network a smaller control power, lying within the tolerance, or taking up from the electricity network a greater control power, lying within the tolerance, in a case that the charging state of the energy store lies below a second limit value.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein the first limit value of the charging state lies between 40% and 80% of a maximum charge of the energy store, or between 45% and 70%, or between 50% and 60%, and/or the second limit value of the charging state lies between 20% and 60% of the maximum charge, or between 30% and 55%, or between 40% and 50%, or the first and second limit values of the charging state lie at 50% of the maximum charge of the energy store.

7. The method according to claim 5, wherein the first and/or the second limit value of the charging state are chosen in dependence on whether positive or negative control power is required, and, when there is a requirement for positive control power, the first limit value and/or the second limit value of the charging state is chosen for a greater charge of the energy store and, when there is a requirement for negative control power, the first limit value and/or the second limit value of the charging state is chosen for a smaller charge of the energy store, the first and second limit values being chosen as a function of the frequency deviation of the network frequency.

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein a flywheel, a heat store, a hydrogen generator and store with a fuel cell, a natural gas generator with a gas-fired power plant, a pumped storage power plant, a compressed-air storage power plant, a superconducting magnetic energy store, a redox-flow element and/or a galvanic element, a rechargeable battery and/or a battery storage power plant, or a lithium-ion battery, is used as the energy store.

9. The method according to claim 1, wherein an energy of at least 1 kWh can be stored in the energy store, or at least 10 kWh, or at least 50 kWh, or at least 250 kWh.

10. The method according to claim 1, wherein, when there is a control power requirement that requires maximum control power, a greater control power is provided than a contracted control power to set the charging state of the energy store.

11. The method according to claim 1, wherein the charging state of the energy store is set with an aim of obtaining the medium charging state, or a charging state between 20% and 80% of the maximum charge of the energy store, or between 40% and 60%, or a charging state of 50%, of the maximum charge of the energy store.

12. The method according to claim 1, wherein the energy store is operated together with an energy generator and/or an energy consuming entity, which are used for setting the charging state of the energy store.

13. The method according to claim 1, wherein a time tolerance is also used to adapt the charging state of the energy store such that, when there is a change of a required control power, a time after the change of the required control power from which changed control power is provided by the energy store is chosen in dependence on the charging state at a given time of the energy store.

14. The method according to claim 13, wherein, when there is a change of the required control power, positive control power is fed into the electricity network at an early time, or immediately, and/or negative control power is removed from the electricity network at a late time, or at a latest possible time, if the charging state of the energy store lies above a first limit value and/or, when there is a change of the required control power, negative control power is removed from the electricity network at an early time, or immediately, and/or positive control power is fed into the electricity network at a late time, or at a latest possible time, if the charging state of the energy store lies below a second limit value.

15. The method according to claim 1, wherein

a control power gradient is chosen in dependence on the charging state of the energy store, a variation over time of an amount of the control power being set and the tolerance of the amount of the control power to be provided over time being used.

16. The method according to claim 1, wherein,

when there is a change of the frequency deviation by less than a range of insensitivity, or by less than 10 MHz, a changed control power can only be delivered to set the charging state of the energy store, or the changed control power can only be delivered if the charging state of the energy store is thereby charged or discharged as strongly as possible towards the medium charging state or as little as possible away from the medium charging state.

17. A device for carrying out the method according to claim 1, comprising a control system and the energy store, the device being connected or connectable to the electricity network, the control system being connected to the energy store and controlling the control power that is given off and/or taken up by the energy store.

18. A device according to claim 17, wherein the device comprises a device for measuring the frequency deviation from the setpoint value of the network frequency of the electricity network and a memory, the control power that is to be delivered and is dependent on the frequency deviation being stored together with the tolerance in the memory and also at least one charging state of the energy store being stored as a target value or as a limit value or else two charging states being stored as limit values, the control system having access to the memory and configured to control the control power that is given off and/or taken up by the energy store in dependence on the frequency deviation and the charging state of the energy store.

19. A device according to claim 17, wherein the energy store is a rechargeable battery, a lithium-ion battery, a lead-sulphuric acid battery, a nickel-cadmium battery, a sodium-sulphide battery and/or a Li-ion battery, and/or a composite of at least two of these rechargeable batteries.

20. The method according to claim 1, wherein the tolerance of an amount of the control power to be delivered as a function of the frequency deviation is used to set the charging state of the energy store at a same time as providing the control power by the energy store.