Economic and environmental analysis of a residential PV system: A profitable contribution to the Paris agreement

Arcos-Vargas, Ángel; Muñoz-Repiso, José Manuel Cansino; Collado, Rocío Román

doi:10.1016/j.rser.2018.06.023

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“…In our research, we assume both manufacture and installation of solar panel and battery storage are in the UK. Arcos-Vargas et al [57] emphasize the importance of installation and manufacture location, suggesting that the carbon emission can reach the lowest around 7g/kWh when both manufacture and final commission happen in France due to its high proportion of nuclear generation. However, it seems unlikely because very few PV systems are produced in Europe nowadays and China has become the biggest solar panel supplier.…”

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Techno-enviro-economic assessment of household and community energy storage in the UK

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Brucoli

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Energy Conversion and Management

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Residential electricity demand is expected to rise in the next few decades due to the electrification of heating and transport. Both European and UK national policies suggest that efforts should be made to reduce carbon emissions and increase the share of renewable energy, an important element of which is encouraging generation, typically PV, in partnership with energy storage systems in the residential sector. The scale of the energy storage system is important, i.e. in individual properties or as a community resource. Many advantages of community energy storage (CES) over household energy storage (HES) have been identified, but the design and operation of CES has received significantly less attention. Most existing research has analysed CES at community level only, but the performance and impact on individual households has yet to be fully explored. In this study an agent-based model is proposed to investigate and analyse CES based on a range of criteria. Results indicate that both HES and CES can significantly reduce the grid peak power import and export, improve the community self-consumption rate (SCR) and self-sufficiency rate (SSR), and contribute to much higher energy saving. Furthermore, optimising the CES capacity leads to more effective use of PV power and better demand localisation during high PV-generation periods. It is found that an important challenge for CES systems is to realise the value of the shared electricity equitably amongst the participants and potentially to seek other revenue streams.

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Techno-enviro-economic assessment of household and community energy storage in the UK

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Brucoli

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Energy Conversion and Management

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“…Regarding the solar systems included in this research, Ref. [74] studied a domestic PV system in one municipality of France (Marseille) and two municipalities of Spain (Madrid and Seville). Their objective was to optimize the PV system by location, based on two assumptions: not returning surplus to the grid and not storing surplus energy.…”

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Economic and Environmental Assessment on Implementing Solar Renewable Energy Systems in Spanish Residential Homes

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In Europe, buildings are responsible for more than one third of the total final energy demands and greenhouse gas emissions. In the last twenty years, the European Union has published a succession of energy performance of building directives to define and ensure the fulfilment of a series of objectives regarding greenhouse gas emissions, energy consumption, energy efficiency and energy generation from renewable sources in buildings. For its part, Spain is adapting its legal framework, transposing these directives with the aim of achieving greater energy efficiency and sustainability for buildings. Under this context, an energy, economic and environmental assessment is performed to analyze the impact of these regulatory changes on a single-family home including a photovoltaic installation for self-consumption with surpluses and/or a solar thermal installation for domestic hot water supply, located in each one of the eight thousand one hundred thirty-one municipalities that make up Spain. The energy behavior of the original house is compared with that obtained after it is updated with these new facilities. The transient system simulation tool is used for the energy study. The results show that the European objectives are far exceeded. The energy savings achieved range from 67% to 126%, carbon dioxide emissions decrease by 42% to 100% and energy bills are reduced in cost by 32% to 81%. The findings of this work can be used by policymakers as guidelines for the development of national strategic plans and financial incentives for the promotion of small-scale residential photovoltaic and solar thermal applications, as well as by designers, supervisors, managers and developers to include them in their projects.

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“…Monetary savings derive from the mitigation of pollutant emissions due to the reduced burning of wood, the reduced deforestation, and the decreases in both health damage and traffic accidents. When calculating benefits, CO 2 emissions stemming from manufacturing and transport might be considered [15].…”

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“…PSH represents the peak solar hours. Following the tool provided by the Chilean Department of Energy [15], the global climbed annual radiation for the city of Temuco is 4.71 kWh/m 2 /day. As colder months register low values, the storage system allows for bridging of this issue.…”

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Health and Heating in the City of Temuco (Chile). Monetary Savings of Replacing Biomass with PV System in the Residential Sector

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The paper conducts a comprehensive analysis of replacing residential use of wood burning stoves for heating with photovoltaic systems for the generation of electricity using storage batteries (PV + storage systems). The research focuses on the city of Temuco (Southern Chile) as a case study, since this city has a high use of firewood for heating (80% of households) and also because this city has been declared by authorities as an area saturated with suspended particles. The total cost corresponds to the acquisition of systems. The reduction of monetary value of the impact of polluting emissions, resulting from the combustion of firewood, on health and traffic accidents is calculated. The interactive tool GDB Compare has been used to calculate the impact of pollution on health both in terms of attributable deaths and disability-adjusted life years. The monetary value of the impact on health has been calculated using two alternative approaches: the value of statistical life and the human capital approach. To identify firewood use requirements, heating degree–days has been used for temperatures ≤15 °C and ≤18 °C. The emissions avoided calculations have been refined, including emissions associated with the manufacture and transport of systems through the life cycle analysis. For all scenarios, the main results show that the savings outweigh the costs.

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Economic and environmental analysis of a residential PV system: A profitable contribution to the Paris agreement

Cited by 36 publications

References 30 publications

Techno-enviro-economic assessment of household and community energy storage in the UK

Techno-enviro-economic assessment of household and community energy storage in the UK

Economic and Environmental Assessment on Implementing Solar Renewable Energy Systems in Spanish Residential Homes

Health and Heating in the City of Temuco (Chile). Monetary Savings of Replacing Biomass with PV System in the Residential Sector

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