Demand Response Improvement using Storage Power Systems: Case study of Honduras

Storage has become a fast and accessible option to solve some power systems technical problems. Therefore, storage is becoming an important part of power planning. Consequently, storage utilisation is proposed in the following article to manage the demand response due to high losses in the power grid and to compensate directly in the loads. This article reviews literature in voltage regulation, stability control, reactive power support, and integration of renewable energies such as solar and wind applied to storage. It presents a simulation using ETAP software to analyse load and generation considering storage as power supplies in mass penetration. The result shows a significant contribution enhancing and reducing the congestion relief for transmission. It indicates satisfactory conditions for the massive use of storage as a measure to improve the reliability of the system, where it is reached to relieve the power system in 16.2 %. Finally, the results showed that the use of storage can be a short-term solution to enable sustained and planned growth of response demand.