Chapter 22

Off-Grid Energy Storage

Catalina Spataru*
Pierrick Bouffaron**†*    Energy Institute, University College London, United Kingdom**    MINES ParisTech, PSL Research University, Centre de mathématiques appliquées, France†    Berkeley Energy & Climate Institute, University of California, Berkeley, United States of America

Abstract

The chapter examines both the potential and barriers to off-grid energy storage (focusing on battery technology) as a key asset to satisfy electricity needs of individual households, small communities, and islands. Remote areas away from urban facilities where the main electricity grid is either not developed or the grid is uneconomical to extend are especially targeted, as well as islands, which may face daunting ...

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