A wind energy integration analysis using wind resource assessment as a decision tool for promoting sustainable energy utilization in agriculture

Xydis, George

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2013.11.030

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“…Farms that produce their own electricity are linked to energy markets on both the supply side and the demand side. This exposes farms to volatility in energy prices as energy consumers and uncertainty of revenue from the production of electricity generated onsite and sold back to the grid (Xydis, 2015). For example, electricity prices affect the costs of crop irrigation due to water pumping but also affect the value of renewable power generated onfarm (Hitaj and Suttles, 2016).…”

Section: Electricity Consumption Generation and Storage On Farmsmentioning

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Agricultural demand response for decarbonizing the electricity grid

Aghajanzadeh

Therkelsen

2019

Journal of Cleaner Production

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1Historically, the focus of the agricultural industry has been increasing profit through maximizing crop yield. Costs for energy and water are small compared to equipment and personnel, and are thus often overlooked. However, energy costs for irrigation are increasing and could be exacerbated with declining water levels in many Western states. This trend has motivated many farmers to explore sustainable irrigation water and energy management practices. Much of this new focus has been directed towards the adoption of new agricultural technologies with a misplaced assumption that technology alone will inherently bring all the benefits. On one hand, farms are going through a paradigm shift, and are turning into net electricity generators, and on the other, higher penetration of intermittent renewable sources into the electricity grid, require dynamic loads to help the grid balance its intrahour variability and short duration ramps. The agricultural industry could be restructured to utilize larger amounts of renewable energy such as wind and solar and provide a great deal of flexibility to the grid. As emerging producers of clean energy, farmers are required to learn and speak the complex language of the electricity grid in order to monetize their energy generation while making the renewable electricity grid more resilient and reliable. In this paper, we develop a foundational approach for understanding and connecting three important concepts that can help the agricultural industry during this critical transition period. Those three concepts are: (a) current and future needs of the electricity grid, (b) available electricity market mechanisms through which farms can provide services to the grid, and (c) understanding electricity consuming/generating equipment on farms. Defining these concepts and condensing them into a standardized framework, can remove a significant barrier for enabling farms to provide services to the electricity grid while improving their bottom line.

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Section: Electricity Consumption Generation and Storage On Farmsmentioning

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Agricultural demand response for decarbonizing the electricity grid

Aghajanzadeh

Therkelsen

2019

Journal of Cleaner Production

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“…Different types of renewable energy sources such as solar, wind, geothermal, hydroelectric, biofuels, biomass etc., are found all over the world bringing the possibility to greenhouse plants to produce yields under a more sustainable, economical and cost-efficient way ( Xydis, 2015a ). Energy policy strategies in a national and a global level, have as a high priority the support of electricity generation and heating from renewable energy and biofuels ( Xydis, 2015b ). Over the last decades significant improvements in a big variety of significant renewable energy systems, which are ground source-based, solar-based energy systems and wind-based energy systems have been made ( Koroneos et al, 2009 , Koroneos et al, 2017 ).…”

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How energy innovation in indoor vertical farming can improve food security, sustainability, and food safety?

Avgoustaki

Xydis

2020

Advances in Food Security and Sustainability

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“…Koroneos et al (2007) proposed a desalination system design driven from RES and produced a software tool for increasing integration of RES. Xydis (2015) used wind integration analysis in the agricultural sector in order the share of the RES utilized for this purpose to be increased.…”

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Wind energy integration via residential appliances

Xydis

Mihet‐Popa

2016

Energy Efficiency

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In this paper cold and thermal storage options via wind energy surplus are examined aiming to enable higher wind integration. A case study in Greece with an installed wind farm (WF) was investigated reviewing the possibilities for higher renewables integration using thermostatically controlled loads (TCLs), analysing thermal and cold storage possibilities according to the needs of the local municipalities. The basic aim is to describe the idea of an aggregated system with a number of residential freezers, in order the wind power to be stored in the residential cold stores aiming at maximizing the benefit to the grid, utility or cold store owner avoiding at the same time wind curtailment. In addition, for thermal storage, by calculating thermal losses of the building, ventilation losses and adding up internal thermal gains of the building the space heating needs can be calculated.

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A wind energy integration analysis using wind resource assessment as a decision tool for promoting sustainable energy utilization in agriculture

Cited by 33 publications

References 44 publications

Agricultural demand response for decarbonizing the electricity grid

Agricultural demand response for decarbonizing the electricity grid

How energy innovation in indoor vertical farming can improve food security, sustainability, and food safety?

Wind energy integration via residential appliances

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