Method for providing control power by an energy store by using tolerances in the delivery of power

• US 9,966,762 B2
• Filed: 10/29/2012
• Issued: 05/08/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 11/10/2011
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Evonik Degussa GmbH, Steag Power Saar GmbH (KSBG Kommunale Beteiligungsgesellschaft GmbH & Company KG)
• Original Assignee: Evonik Degussa GmbH, Steag Power Saar GmbH (KSBG Kommunale Beteiligungsgesellschaft GmbH & Company KG)
• Inventors: Markowz, Georg, Schweissthal, Wolfgang, Kolligs, Carsten, Brezski, Holger, Flemming, Anna, Cochet, Sebastien, Gamrad, Dennis
• Primary Examiner(s): Donovan, Lincoln
• Assistant Examiner(s): Almo, Khareem E
• Application Number:
  US14/357,370
• Publication Number:
  US 20140312689A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,017 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

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, tolerance with respect to the amount of the control power to be provided being used to set a charging state of the energy store at a same time as providing 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 control power given off and/or taken up by the energy store.

Claims

1. 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, wherein

a tolerance with respect to an amount of control power to be provided is used to set a charging state of the energy store at a same time as providing the control power by the energy store.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the tolerance in the determination of the frequency deviation is used to set the charging state of the energy store, or at a same time as providing the control power by the energy store.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein a 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 an amount of the requested control power is 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, a percentage by which the amount of the requested control power is exceeded being chosen in proportion to a deviation of the charging state of the energy store from a desired medium charging state.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the amount of the control power provided is measured with a greater accuracy than is necessary for delivering the control power, or with an accuracy of at least ±

10 kW, or, at least ±

1 kW, or at least ±

100 W, or 10 W, or with an accuracy of 1%, or 0.1%, of prequalified power.

6. 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.

7. The method according to claim 6, 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.

8. The method according to claim 6, 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, or the limit values being chosen as a function of frequency deviation of a network frequency.

9. 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.

10. 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.

11. 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.

12. The method according to claim 1, wherein the charging state of the energy store is set with an aim of obtaining a medium charging state, or a charging state between 20% and 80% of a maximum amount of energy that can be stored in the energy store, or between 40% and 60%, or a charging state of 50%, of the maximum amount of energy that can be stored in the energy store.

13. 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.

14. 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 the required control power, a time after the change from which changed control power is provided by the energy store is chosen in dependence on the charging state at the given time of the energy store, a time interval depending on a type of control power requested, a time interval being 30 seconds in a case of provision of primary control power, 5 minutes in a case of provision of secondary control power, and 15 minutes in a case of provision of minutes reserve power.

15. The method according to claim 14, 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.

16. 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.

17. The method according to claim 1, wherein,

when there is a change of 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 an only be delivered if the charging state of the energy store is thereby charged or discharged as strongly as possible towards a medium charging state or as little as possible away from the medium charging state.

18. A device, comprising:

a control system; and

an energy store connected to an electricity network and to the control system, the energy store supplying energy to the electricity network and/or receiving energy from the electricity network as required, wherein

the control system controls a control power that is provided by and/or taken up by the energy store, the control power being delivered in dependence on a frequency deviation from a setpoint value of a network frequency, and

the control system uses a tolerance, with respect to an amount of the control power to be provided, to set a charging state of the energy store at a same time as providing the control power by the energy store.

19. The device according to claim 18, further comprising:

a frequency measuring device for measuring the frequency deviation from the setpoint value of the network frequency of the electricity network;

a power measuring device for measuring power fed in and taken up; and

a data memory, wherein

the control power that is to be delivered and is dependent on the frequency deviation being stored together with tolerances in the data memory or 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, and

the control system having access to the data memory and configured to control the control power that is provided by and/or taken up by the energy store in dependence on the frequency deviation and the charging state of the energy store.

20. The device according to claim 18, wherein the energy store is a rechargeable battery, a lithium-ion battery, a lead-sulphuric acid battery, a nickel-cadmium battery, sodium-sulphide battery and/or a Li-ion battery, and/or a composite of at least two of these rechargeable batteries.