Comparative analysis of two microgrid solutions for island green energy supply sustainability

Anderson, William W.; Yakimenko, Oleg A.

doi:10.1109/icrera.2017.8191274

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“…In maritime remote areas, electricity supply is mostly provided by solar and wind energies [1,2]. Batteries and gensets are often used to ensure the demand to be met in case of low generation [3,4].…”

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Benefits of Demand Side Management strategies for an island supplied by marine renewable energies

Roy¹,

Auger²,

Bourguet³

et al. 2018

2018 7th International Conference on Renewable Energy Research and Applications (ICRERA)

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While marine renewable energies have seen some interest over the last years, the electricity supply of maritime remote areas still presents many constraints, such as high costs due to the storage requirements. The constraints related to the reliance show that the energy management system needs some flexibility, which can be done by managing the demand. The strategies based on load shed and load postponement are often considered. In this paper, anticipation based strategies are proposed in the aim to use the excess power for shiftable loads supply and to foster marine energies integration for the electricity supply of remote areas. A multi-source system including solar, wind, tidal and wave energies is considered, in which batteries are used to ensure the demand to be satisfied as much as possible. The developed strategies concern the electric room heaters and water heaters power demand. Significant effects on demand satisfaction, battery lifetime, system sizing and costs are observed in the carried out simulations, showing the positive effects brought by the proposed anticipation based strategies. Moreover, some situations of loss of power supply are avoided thanks to the proposed demand side management strategies.

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Benefits of Demand Side Management strategies for an island supplied by marine renewable energies

Roy¹,

Auger²,

Bourguet³

et al. 2018

2018 7th International Conference on Renewable Energy Research and Applications (ICRERA)

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“…This motivates integrating redundancy constraints in fossil generation planning [41] and installing storage capacity to boost the flexibility of the plant. The reliability challenges of integrating more and more renewable resources into large-scale systems have been covered by island microgrid studies [42] such as those performed for the islands of La Réunion [43] and El Hierro [44]. In [45], [46] it is shown that a stochastic variation of renewable resources and a reduction of the mechanical inertia reduce the system's resiliency to power fluctuations.…”

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An overview of the challenges of solar power integration in isolated industrial microgrids with reliability constraints

Polleux

Guérassimoff

Marmorat

et al. 2022

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

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Reducing carbon emissions and electricity costs in industry is a major challenge to ensure competitiveness and compliance with new climate policies. Photovoltaic power offers a promising solution but also brings considerable uncertainties and risks that may endanger the continuity and quality of supply. From an operational point of view, large-scale integration of solar power could result in unmet demand, electrical instabilities and equipment damage. The performance and lifetime of conventional fossil equipment are likely to be altered by repeated transient operations, making it necessary to adopt specific modeling tools. Control strategies and sizing methodologies must be adapted to account for the strong reliability constraint while dealing with significant production uncertainties. In addition, conventional mitigation technologies, such as storage and load flexibility, have limited potential in these applications and may result in high investments or penalties if they are not properly assessed. This study provides an overview of these challenges by providing a transversal analysis of the scientific literature from fossil engine thermodynamics to control system theory applied to industrial systems. The main characteristics of reliability-constrained microgrids are identified and a conceptual definition is proposed by analyzing state-of-the art studies of various industrial applications and taking oil-and gas microgrids as an enlightening example. Then follows a review of the challenges of accounting for dynamical behavior of fossil equipment, PV and storage systems, ending with the identification of several research gaps. Finally, applicable control strategies and sizing techniques are presented.

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Using neural networks to model and forecast solar PV power generation at Isle of Eigg

Anderson

Yakimenko

2018

2018 IEEE 12th International Conference on Compatibility, Power Electronics and Power Engineering (CPE-POWERENG 2018)

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Comparative analysis of two microgrid solutions for island green energy supply sustainability

Cited by 8 publications

References 7 publications

Benefits of Demand Side Management strategies for an island supplied by marine renewable energies

Benefits of Demand Side Management strategies for an island supplied by marine renewable energies

An overview of the challenges of solar power integration in isolated industrial microgrids with reliability constraints

Using neural networks to model and forecast solar PV power generation at Isle of Eigg

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