Print Email Facebook Twitter To Store or Not to Store Title To Store or Not to Store: A Q-Methodological Study into the Influence of Perceived Needs and Factors on the Implementation of Electrical Storage Applications in the Dutch Power Grid Author Woliner, Samy (TU Delft Technology, Policy and Management) Contributor Bouwman, W.A.G.A. (graduation committee) Rook, L. (graduation committee) Degree granting institution Delft University of Technology Programme Management of Technology (MoT) Date 2020-04-23 Abstract Modern society is highly dependent on the reliable supply of affordable electricity. To ensure a sustainable future, this energy should be derived from renewable generation systems. The intermittent output of such systems makes it hard to maintain the so-called grid balance, which can lead to the malfunctioning of the current power grid. Adding electrical storage applications to the electrical energy infrastructure is increasingly mentioned as a viable and even instrumental solution, but no stakeholder seems willing to act. This research combines PESTLE analysis with Q-methodology to investigate and describe the variables that influence this situation. In doing so, it lists the institutional factors that are presently deemed by various stakeholders to be either opportunities or barriers to implementing a system to maintain grid balance in the Dutch electrical infrastructure. A tentative conceptual modal is proposed to illustrate the mutual influence of the perceived external forces that could induce change in the Dutch electricity sector. Subject Electricity StorageGrid ManagementEnergy Management SystemBalancing Mechanisms To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:8f76757d-370f-4d9e-b519-c566c817c033 Part of collection Student theses Document type master thesis Rights © 2020 Samy Woliner Files PDF 20200406_TUDelft_Scriptie ... _Final.pdf 5.62 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:8f76757d-370f-4d9e-b519-c566c817c033/datastream/OBJ/view