IEEE Electrification - December 2021 - 2

ABOUT THIS ISSUE
EDITORIAL BOARD
Editor-in-Chief
Lingling Fan
University of South Florida
Florida, USA
linglingfan@usf.edu
Energy Storage-
The Buffer We Have
Been Looking For
By Zhenyu Huang and Mohammed Ben-Idris
F
OR MORE THAN A CENTURY, THE POWER SYSTEM HAS
been an amazing balancing act-how much electricity
is generated has to be exactly how much is consumed.
This is quite a unique situation. Most other complex systems-
natural or man-made-have buffers built in: rivers can have reservoirs;
supply chain systems have warehouses; and gas
systems have tanks. These buffers decouple the flows and make
system operation more flexible, and fluctuations can be contained
in local areas. Without these buffers, any imbalance in
the power system can cause system-wide operation issues and
potentially lead to outages and/or equipment damages. This
becomes even a more challenging situation because of larger
fluctuations due to the ever-increasing renewable penetration. If
the power system has large buffers, many of the operational
challenges would no longer exist, complexity would be reduced,
and flexibility would increase. Energy storage is such a buffer for
which power engineers have been looking. However, to truly
have the benefit from energy storage, it has to be deployed at
scale, and it needs to be long duration for mitigating the seasonal
and diurnal nature of renewable generation. Large-scale energy
storage deployment needs safety assurance, codes and
standards, and methods and tools for system-level planning,
control, and operation.
In this special issue of IEEE Electrification Magazine, we present
five feature articles and two columns that address several important
aspects of large-scale energy storage deployment. This issue
also includes two interesting feature articles on the hyperloop
technology that has great potential to reduce carbon emissions in
the transportation sector but adds additional requirements on the
electricity sector, which energy storage can play an important role
to support.
The issue starts with the " Technology Leaders " column, " The
Future of Electricity Storage: From Hours to Days, " by Paul
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Associate Editors
Electric Trains
Tamas Ruzsanyi
Ganz-Skoda
Hungary
tamas.ruzsanyi@ieee.org
Eduardo Pilo de la Fuente
University Francisco Vitoria
Spain
eduardo.pilo@ufv.es
José Conrado Martínez
Administrador de
Infraestructuras
Ferroviarias
Spain
jcmartinez@adif.es
Microgrid
Suryanarayana Doolla
Indian Institute of
Technology Bombay
India
suryad@iitb.ac.in
Mohammad
Shahidehpour
Illinois Institute
of Technology
Illinois, USA
ms@iit.edu
Steve Pullins
AlphaStruxure
Massachusetts, USA
steve.pullins@se.com
Antonello Monti
RWTH Aachen
Germany
amonti@eonerc
.rwth-aachen.de
Electric Ships
Marta Molinas
Norwegian University
of Science and
Technology
Norway
marta.molinas@ntnu.no
Herb Ginn
University of
South Carolina
South Carolina, USA
ginnhl@cec.sc.edu
Robert Cuzner
University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Wisconsin, USA
Cuzner@uwm.edu
Electric Vehicles
Khwaja Rahman
Rivian
Michigan, USA
krahman@rivian.com
Silva Hiti
Rivian
California, USA
silvahiti@rivian.com
Eduard Muljadi
Auburn University
Alabama, USA
mze0018@auburn.edu
Mahesh Krishnamurthy
Illinois Institute
of Technology
Illinois, USA
kmahesh@iit.edu
Electric Planes
Syed A. Hossain
GE Aviation
Ohio, USA
syed.hossain@ge.com
Kaushik Rajashekara
University of Houston
Texas, USA
ksraja@central.uh.edu
Babak Nahid-Mobarakeh
McMaster University
Canada
Babak.nahid@ieee.org
Bulent Sarlioglu
University of
Wisconsin-Madison
Wisconsin, USA
bulent@engr.wisc.edu
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