Lithium-ion Battery Storage Contributions To Achieve Jordan Energy Strategy 2020-2030

Abstract

The Jordan Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Law (13) year 2012, was the starting point in the journey towards changing the energy mix in Jordan. Gigantic steps were taken by the government of Jordan to shift towards using the local renewable energy resources (Wind and Solar PV) which resulted in 32.5% RE power installed capacity on grid, which is the highest percentage of RE power integration (between 2014 – 2020) among all countries in the world. This high presence of renewable energy generation results a limitation in Jordan’s electrical grid nowadays, which could limit or reduce the number of new capacities of renewable energy sources due to the high loading in the transmission network.This paper evaluates the solution of using Lithium-ion battery storage systems to allow more renewable energy systems to be integrated into the grid, to ensure the safe operation of the grid. This paper evaluates the technical advantages and the financial feasibility of installing Lithium-ion storage into the grid in Jordan.Three major scenarios have been developed to achieve energy savings, reduce the CO2 emissions, and to increase the energy storage on the demand side by 1%, 3%, and 5 % or 365 GWh by 2030 according to the Jordanian energy strategy 2020-2030. Another scenario has been made to decrease the energy from the generation side and store the energy by replacing the diesel generators on the generation side and replace it with 698 GWh PV panels and Lithium-ion storage. The result was savings by 102 million Jordanian Dinar (JD) annually, and 698 GWh from the generation side.