The Impact of Natural Gas Storage Localization on an Integrated Energy System

The world tendency to the rational and efficient management of energy resources and the discouragement in the use of high polluting fuels has posed a challenge to develop novel analytical methodologies that can be applied to the available resources. The operation planning of the electric and natural gas integrated system has an important role to create new solutions for the optimization of resources and existing infrastructures. The proper use of storage technologies can help to improve the integration between the electricity and gas systems, the optimal use of resources compensates seasonal variability between the availability of resources and demand. This paper shows that the geographical location of the UGS has a considerable impact on the policy in terms of how much natural gas-based power generation is produced and the total production cost of the integrated system. Numerical results confirm that a UGS can have the physical properties to store natural gas, but its location might cause a significant or insignificant impact on the system.