Distribution planning of mobile battery energy storage systems for grid outage support to urban residents

Abstract

Mobile battery energy storage systems (MBESSs) represent an emerging application within the broader framework of battery energy storage systems (BESSs). By transporting lightweight BESSs, energy backup support can be provided to different geographical locations. This work studies a new scenario, in which an MBESS service provider delivers a number of BESSs to serve multiple end energy customers in an emergent grid outage event. An integrated distribution planning framework is proposed to coordinately optimise the MBESS carrier's driving paths and the distribution plans for the BESSs. The framework aims at maximising the MBESS service provider's total profit. An efficient, decomposed solving approach is developed for the proposed framework; numerical simulations are conducted to validate the effectiveness of the proposed system.