A Survey of Research on Datacenters Using Energy Storage Devices to Participate in Smart Grid Demand Response

摘要

Aiming at the basic issues of huge energy consumption and operator costs derived from the wide usage of datacenters, this paper focused on the key technologies based on underutilized energy storage devices (ESDs)deployed inside the datacenters to participate in the regulation of its own power. The research progress and recent results of studies on datacenters using energy storage devices to adjust the power consumption were summarized, by classifying and analyzing the characteristics of different types of energy storage devices. Also, from the perspective of the models and algorithms of smart grid demand response, we also discussed about the approaches used in datacenters for participating the demand response programs in the smart grid leveraging the advantages of ESDs. Finally, the prospects of possible future research directions were discussed.