Endorsing Stable And Steady Power Supply By Exploiting Energy Storage Technologies: A Study Of Kuwait'S Power Sector

Energy plays an essential role in the development, economic growth, and advancement of any country. Therefore, new energy technologies must be explored and utilized to ensure a constant supply of clean energy that is readily available especially during peak loads. One of the solutions is the use of energy storage technologies (ESTs), which can be used to improve energy availability. This chapter will study the viability of three important types of EST uses in the electrical energy sector and the various techniques used in understanding the economical assessment of energy storage, pertaining to the substation assembly section. The ideal use of the selected ESTs in the substation section, based on techno-economic analysis results, will also be discussed. The results showed that the sodium sulfur EST and compressed air energy storage (CAES) were the two optimal options when comparing major technical and economical aspects.