Reducing emissions from consumer energy storage using retail rate design

Benjamin Whitney Griffiths

Energy Policy, 2019, vol. 129, issue C, 481-490

Abstract: Minimizing retail electricity costs via demand charge management and energy arbitrage is a common application of behind-the-meter energy storage systems (ESS). Research suggests that ESS tend to increase grid emissions, but some speculate that retail rate design could lessen its impact. This paper tests that theory. In this analysis, we pair five years of historic data from ISO New England (ISO-NE) and the PJM Interconnection with 15 commercial building load profiles to reveal how different rate designs influence emissions from ESS.

Keywords: Energy storage; CO2 emissions; Demand charge management; Rate design (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2019.01.039

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