The electricity supply in remote areas around the 140,000 tons the GHG emission resulting from the use of world uses mostly diesel generators. This method, relatively generators for the subscribers of the Quebec autonomous inefficient and expensive, is responsible for the emission of 1.2 networks. This quantity of GHG is equivalent to the one million tons of greenhouse gas (GHG) annually, only in Canada. emitted by 35,000 cars during one year. Some low and high penetration wind-diesel hybrid systemsThe majority of these communities are located in coastal (WDS) have been experimented in order to reduce the diesel areas and benefit of a good wind resource. The exploitation of consumption. The use of a high penetration system together with the wind resource in these autonomous networks could reduce compressed air energy storage (CAES) it is a viable alternative to improve the overall percentage of renewable energy and reduce hel, defts ofexlitationbyporieg thew a the cost of electricity. In this paper we compare different technical fuel", rather than the diesel, an imported fuel.solutions for the CAES system and choose the one that optimize the performance and the cost of the overall system. While in this II. PRIMARY SOLUTION: HIGH PENETRATION WINDextended abstract only a superficial description of this system is DIESEL HYBRID SYSTEM (WDHP)introduced, detailed results of the simulation will be presented in the complete paper. This new design conducts to the increase of The use of hybrid systems, which combine renewable diesel power and efficiency, to the reduction of fuel consumption sources with the diesel generator, allows reducing the total and GHG emissions, in addition to economies on the maintenance consumption of fuel, an environmental and economic and replacement cost of the diesels.advantage.Low penetration wind -diesel systems (WDS), have been I. INTRODUCTION already implemented in Nordic communities in Yukon [2], In Canada, more than 200,000 people live in more than 300 Nunavut [3] and in Alaska [4]. By low penetration systems we remote communities (Yukon, TNO, Nunavut, islands ...). It i understand that the instantaneous wind power is maximum of necessary to add to that the many technical installations 20-35O 0 of the diesel rated power and the overall energy from (towers and communications relays, weather systems), tourist wind do not exceed .0.15O of total consumption. Generally, facilities, farms which are not connected . totheprovincialorthe WDS uses an existing diesel power plant and add a wind faclities, farms which are not connected to the provincial or farm ' . . . . .. .~~~~~farm containig a single model of turbine. To these two national electric distribution grids. This is the result of economic decisions related to the cost of transmission and prmcipal elements are added logic and the components distribution line over a-vast teitory [1. These isolated sitesnecessary to the hybrid exploitation of the system: secondary ,.distbi ln ovner a vt eterrity . Thesmeioldis ie loads for smoothing, regu...
