Enabling technologies for innovative energy management systems in domestic applications

Storage systems became one of the most appreciated solution of some problems related with energy distribution and a fundamental part in the new energy system well known as Virtual Power Systems (VPS). A VPS is a new way to manage the energy, starting from production by standard power plants and renewable sources, to consumption in industries and villages. Actually, distributed generation from renewable sources starts creating electric stability problems in the distribution system/network due to the impulsive injection of energy and also for the non-predictable generation profile. For these reasons is absolutely necessary to guarantee a good integration of the new energy sources in the actual power system and storage can become the perfect joining link for the realization of a Smart Grid.