An overview of renewable energy resources and grid integration for commercial building applications

Mbungu, Nsilulu T.; Naidoo, Vinogran; Bansal, Ramesh C.; Siti, Mukwanga W.; Tungadio, Diambomba H.

doi:10.1016/j.est.2020.101385

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“…Cost reduction and digital technology can play a crucial role to increase generation from solar and wind energy sources. Integration of RESs with energy storage devices can maximize their output along with fulfilment of the load demand 10 …”

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Design and analysis of a microgrid system for reliable rural electrification

Garg

Sharma

Kumar

2020

Int Trans Electr Energ Syst

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Summary Microgrid systems based on renewable energy sources can play a significant role in providing cost‐effective, environmentally friendly and reliable electrical supply to the people living in rural areas of India. This assessment aims to design and evaluate the performance of a grid‐connected microgrid system comprising of photovoltaic (PV) arrays, wind energy generating units and battery energy storage system (BESS). The realistic load data of a small village, Tandwal, located in Ambala district of Haryana, India, is considered for this assessment. Furthermore, sensitivity analysis is performed to find out the effect of load demand, solar radiation, utility grid price, grid outages, capital cost of BESS, solar module cost and power converter loading ratio in the proposed microgrid system. The results show that the PV‐BESS‐utility grid system is an optimal solution with renewable energy penetration at the studied location. The feed‐in tariff/net metering makes the overall system sustainable and improves its reliability with unmet load as well as capacity shortage.

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“…Integration of RESs with energy storage devices can maximize their output along with fulfilment of the load demand. 10 Depending on the availability of resources at the study sites, researchers have performed various studies. For example, a solar/wind/micro-hydro/diesel hybrid solution has been proposed for a remote and rural community in Orissa, India.…”

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Design and analysis of a microgrid system for reliable rural electrification

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Sharma

Kumar

2020

Int Trans Electr Energ Syst

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“…As comprehensively reviewed in [4, 5], several centralised MEMS frameworks have been designed in a deterministic manner. For instance, in [6] a centralised MEMS is presented based on a two‐stage methodology considering the ownership of the MG by a utility.…”

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Stochastic distributed microgrid energy management based on over‐relaxed alternative direction method of multipliers

Afrasiabi

Mohammadi

Rastegar

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IET Renewable Power Generation

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“…According to Mbungu et al . [5], the hybrid power system, which consists of more than one renewable resource (commonly solar and wind resources), is cost‐effective and reliable in comparison with the non‐hybrid power system.…”

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Zero bus load flow method for the integration of renewable DGs by mixed‐discrete particle swarm optimisation‐based fuzzy max–min approach

Barik

Das

Bansal

2020

IET Renewable Power Generation

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This study proposes an approach to determine the optimal placement and sizing of renewable distributed generations (DGs) and shunt capacitor in the distribution network (DN) with a pre‐defined energy contract strategy with the main grid by using fuzzy integrated mixed‐discrete particle swarm optimisation (MDPSO) based method. The proposed pre‐defined contract strategies are implemented in this study using the modified Newton–Raphson (NR) load flow method with the concept of the PQVδ−zero bus. The modifications in the Jacobian matrix in the NR load flow method is developed. MDPSO method is adopted to take care of both the continuous and the discrete variables, to determine the proper locations and the sizes of renewable DGs and shunt capacitor by reducing the active power loss, improving the voltage profile, and reducing the annual costs of the DGs. The multi‐objective optimisation is solved by using the fuzzy max–min‐based technique. The proposed method of DG placement is tested on 69 bus DN for three different scenarios. The results obtained from the proposed multi‐objective method are also compared with the weighted sum approach for different combinations.

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An overview of renewable energy resources and grid integration for commercial building applications

Cited by 142 publications

References 98 publications

Design and analysis of a microgrid system for reliable rural electrification

Design and analysis of a microgrid system for reliable rural electrification

Stochastic distributed microgrid energy management based on over‐relaxed alternative direction method of multipliers

Zero bus load flow method for the integration of renewable DGs by mixed‐discrete particle swarm optimisation‐based fuzzy max–min approach

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