Method for providing control power using an energy store having variable deadband width when providing the control power

• US 9,748,775 B2
• Filed: 10/29/2012
• Issued: 08/29/2017
• 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: Markowz, Georg, Schweissthal, Wolfgang, Kolligs, Carsten, Brezski, Holger, Flemming, Anna, Gamrad, Dennis, Cochet, Sebastien
• Primary Examiner(s): Fureman, Jared
• Assistant Examiner(s): Bukhari, Aqeel
• Application Number:
  US14/357,401
• Publication Number:
  US 20140292080A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,765 Days
• Field of Search: None
• 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

Abstract

A method providing control power for an electricity network in which at least one energy store supplies energy to the electricity network and/or takes up energy from the electricity network dependent on a frequency deviation from a desired frequency of the electricity network, a deadband being prescribed around the desired frequency. The frequency deviation from the network frequency is measured with greater accuracy than a width of the deadband and a bandwidth within the deadband is chosen dependent on a charging state of the energy store, with control power being provided outside the bandwidth. A device carrying out the method includes at least one energy store and a control system controlling control power of the energy store in an open-loop or closed-loop manner, the energy store being connected to an electricity network such that energy can be fed into the electricity network and can be removed from the electricity network.

Claims

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

providing the control power to discharge or charge an energy store for supplying energy to an electricity network or taking up energy from the electricity network respectively based on a frequency deviation from a desired frequency of the electricity network and a deadband around the desired frequency being prescribed, 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 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;

measuring the frequency deviation from the desired frequency with an accuracy greater than a width of the deadband; and

selecting a bandwidth within the deadband as a new deadband based on the charging state of the energy store to move the charging state toward the medium charging state.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein

in dependence on the charging state, or the charging state at a given time, of the energy store, the bandwidth is chosen to be less than the width of the deadband if the charging state deviates from the medium charging state, or a semi-charged charging state at which the energy store contains approximately half of a maximum possible energy content, or between 40% and 60% of the maximum possible energy content, or a charging state range in a region of the semi-charged charging state, or including the semi-charged charging state, or between 20% and 80% of the maximum possible energy content, or between 30% and 70% of the maximum possible energy content, being defined as the medium charging state.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein

for at least one charging state of the energy store, the bandwidth is reduced to an accuracy of a measurement of the frequency deviation.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein

the charging state of the energy store is adapted, or a medium charging state is aimed for, by a choice of the bandwidth and a provision of the control power in the deadband.

5. The method according to claim 2, wherein

one of limits of the bandwidth is defined as the frequency deviation from a desired frequency that is established by an accuracy of a measurement, or one of limits of the bandwidth is defined by the desired frequency or by a frequency deviation between these values, a lower limit of the bandwidth being defined in this way if the charging state of the energy store is to be reduced, or the charging state lies above the medium charging state, and/or an upper limit of the bandwidth being defined in this way if the charging state of the energy store is to be increased, or the charging state lies below the medium charging state.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein

the bandwidth is selected from two or more predetermined bandwidths, various states of charge, or every charging state of the energy store or various ranges of the charging state, or every range of the charging state, being assigned predetermined bandwidths.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein

the bandwidth is chosen in proportion to a difference in charging state of the charging state at a given time of the energy store from the medium charging state, or the bandwidth depends linearly on the difference in the charging state of the charging state at the given time from the medium charging state.

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein

the charging state of the energy store is measured, or measured continuously, the control power delivered by the energy store to the electricity network being controlled in dependence on the charging state.

9. The method according to claim 1, wherein

outside the bandwidth, the control power is provided as desired by a network operator and/or an amount of the control power is delivered with respect to the frequency deviation in certain regions in inverse proportion to the frequency deviation of a network frequency, or linearly to the frequency deviation.

10. The method according to claim 1, wherein

within the bandwidth, no power is delivered from the energy store into the electricity network and no power is taken up from the electricity network into the energy store.

11. The method according to claim 1, wherein

the frequency deviation is measured with an accuracy of at least ±

8 MHz, or at least ±

4 MHz, or at least ±

2 MHz, or at least ±

1 MHz.

12. The method according to claim 1, wherein

when there is a change of the control power, a time after the change from which control energy is provided by the energy store is chosen in dependence on the charging state at a given time of the energy store.

13. The method according to claim 12, wherein

the time lies in a time interval between the change of the control power and a maximum after the change, or the time interval is 30 seconds in a case of a provision of primary control power.

14. The method according to claim 1, wherein

in the deadband no negative control power is taken up by the electricity network if the charging state of the energy store lies above a first limit value and/or in the deadband no positive control energy is fed into the electricity network if the charging state of the energy store lies below a second limit value, the first and second limit values defining a range of the medium charging state.

15. 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, is used as the energy store.

16. The method according to claim 15, wherein

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 is used as the energy store.

17. The method according to claim 1, wherein

the energy store has a capacity of at least 4 kWh, or at least 10 kWh, or at least 50 kWh, or at least 250 kWh.

18. The method according to claim 1, wherein

the energy store is operated jointly with at least one energy generator and/or at least one energy consuming entity for a provision of the control power for the electricity network.

19. The method according to claim 18, wherein

a closed-loop control and/or open-loop control of the energy store is operated in dependence on and in operative connection with the at least one energy generator and/or with the at least one energy consuming entity in a provision of the control power for the electricity network.

20. The method according to claim 1, wherein

a tolerance with respect to the frequency deviation from the desired frequency of the electricity network is used to set the charging state of the energy store at a same time as providing the control power by the energy store.

21. The method according to claim 1, wherein

a tolerance with respect to an amount of the control power provided is used to set the charging state of the energy store at a same time as providing the control power by the energy store, or an amount of a requested control power being exceeded, or by a maximum of 30% and/or by 10 MW, or by a maximum of 20% and/or by 5 MW, to make use of the tolerance with respect to the amount of the control power provided, or a percentage by which the amount of the requested control power is exceeded being chosen particularly in proportion to the deviation of the charging state of the energy store from the medium charging state.

22. The method according to claim 20, 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 the smaller control power, lying within the tolerance, or taking up from the electricity network the greater control power, lying within the tolerance, in a case that the charging state of the energy store lies below a second limit value.

23. 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 particularly set and a tolerance of the amount of the control power to be provided over time being used.

24. 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.

25. A device for carrying out the method according to claim 1, comprising at least one energy store and a control system for controlling the control power of the energy store in an open-loop or closed-loop manner, the energy store being connected to the electricity network such that energy can be fed into the electricity network and can be removed from the electricity network by the device.

26. A The device according to claim 25, wherein

the device further comprises at least one energy generator and/or at least one energy consuming entity that is/are connected to the electricity network such that the control power can be fed into the electricity network by the energy generator and/or can be removed from the electricity network by the energy consuming entity, or the energy store can be charged by the energy generator and/or discharged by the energy consuming entity.

27. The device according to claim 25, wherein

the device further comprising a first measurement device for measuring the charging state of the at least one energy store and/or a second measurement device for measuring the frequency deviation of the network frequency from the desired frequency and a data memory, at least a bandwidth and/or the medium charging state of the energy store being stored in the data memory, the control system having access to the data memory and being designed for controlling the control power delivered and taken up by the energy store in dependence on the charging state of the energy store and/or on the frequency deviation.

28. The device according to claim 25, wherein

the energy store is a rechargeable battery, or 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.