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Scheduling and dimensioning of heterogeneous energy stores, with applications to future GB storage needs

@inproceedings{Zachary2021SchedulingAD,
  title={Scheduling and dimensioning of heterogeneous energy stores, with applications to future GB storage needs},
  author={Stan Zachary},
  year={2021}
}
Future electricity systems in which all or most generation is renewable may require very high volumes of storage, provided jointly by a number of heterogeneous technologies, in order to manage the associated variability in the generation-demand balance. We consider the problems of scheduling and dimensioning such storage. We develop a value-function based approach to optimal scheduling, and show that, to a good approximation, the problem to be solved at each successive point in time reduces to… 
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