Battery storage in residential applications of energy from photovoltaic sources

Albert R. Landgrebe and Samuel W. Donley

Applied Energy, 1983, vol. 15, issue 2, 127-137

Abstract: Electric energy storage in batteries is discussed for future applications in homeowner-controlled grid-tied photovoltaic power generation systems for residences. Energy storage would enable more effective matching of the intermittent solar-generated energy to high-use periods, as well as storage of energy for sale to the utilities, taking advantage of future variable (time-of-day) utility rate and buy-back structures. State-of-the-art lead-acid batteries are economically viable for utility rate scenarios that are expected to be in effect in many areas of the United States in the mid-1980s.1 [`]Advanced batteries' (e.g. sodium-sulfur, zinc-bromine, lithium-metal sulfide) with decreased capital investment costs, minimal maintenance and improved performance characteristics could have enhanced consumer acceptance in the late 1980s.

Date: 1983
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