A Review of Energy Storage Systems for Wind Power Plants

The worldwide consumed energy is increasing every year by technological developments and incremental of the population. The growing energy demand is generally covered by exhaustible resources. However, using fossil fuels damage environment. For this reason, Wind Power Systems, type of renewable energy, are preferred for establishing new power plants. Wind Power Plants (WPP) are installed every year with a significant increasing rate. Integration of large scale WPPs into grid presents some issues, such as power quality, bridging power and energy management. State of the art the Energy Storage (ES) is a possible solution for Wind Power Plants.In this paper, possible ES technologies for decreasing disadvantages of WPPs are discussed and their characteristic features are compared. ES systems are indicated in terms of purpose of use in WPPs