Energy Storage Methods - Superconducting Magnetic Energy Storage - A Review

Abstract

Energy storage is very important for electricity as it improves the way electricity is generated,delivered and consumed. Storage of energy helps during emergencies such as power outages fromnatural calamities, equipment failures, accidents etc. It is very challenging to balance the powersupply needs with the demand instantaneously within milliseconds. This makes power networksmore resilient and ecient. Storage of excess energy, to meet the ever increasing levels of primaryenergy derived from renewable sources needs further development and advancement. The intro-duction of environmentally-conscious policies to lower greenhouse gas emissions and increase thesecurity of energy supplies heavily in uences the market rules today. All these factors have led toexplore renewable energy sources, their use to meet the ever increasing energy demand and electricalenergy storage (EES). One of the energy storage methods, superconducting magnetic energy storage(SMES),will be discussed in this paper.