Analysis of Energy Storage Technology and Their Application for Micro Grid

This paper clarifies the necessity of the development of micro grid with independent energy storage unit and introduces the characteristic and academic research of storage technology applied to micro grid. Firstly, the advantages and disadvantages of the battery energy storage, superconductive magnetic energy storage, flywheel energy storage, super capacitor energy storage and hybrid storage in micro grid are introduced. And then the characteristics and requirements of micro grid are also considered. Finally, the application research of various storage methods are discussed and the future development trend of energy storage technology are presented.