Impact Assessment of Microgrid in Smart Cities: Indian Perspective

Warsi, Nawaz Ali; Siddiqui, Anwar Shahzad; Kirmani, Sheeraz; Sarwar,

doi:10.1007/s40866-019-0071-3

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“…To create an infrastructure capable of all these benefits, a multi-disciplinary approach and engineering tools for the development and implementation of this paradigm are needed [46]. Smart city is a holistic approach to synthesizing environmental and energy concerns while optimizing economic and societal impacts [47].…”

Section: Smart Citiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Microgrid Emergence, Integration, and Influence on the Future Energy Generation Equilibrium—A Review

Chartier¹,

Venkiteswaran²,

Rangarajan

et al. 2022

Electronics

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Microgrids are emerging throughout the world as a means of integrating decentralized, renewable energy power generation. The flexibility of this customer-driven, behind the meter solution allows it to address unique challenges. This variability that drives microgrid adoption is the same thing that keeps them from being categorized and repeatable. This lack of specific modeling leads to a stalling in financing and wide-scale adoption. By analyzing the microgrid system development, evolution, architecture, integration zones, technological advances, and business models, a clearer picture of how these entities are intertwined emerges. Several case studies of deployed microgrids will showcase the cutting-edge solutions they apply. The future implications of this new energy revolution will be highlighted and shown to create an energy generation equilibrium and the significant role played by microgrids in this new energy revolution. Although many compilations of research work on microgrids have been previously presented by various reviewers, most of them are specific to an electrical or power quality-related issue, which addresses a discrete audience. This work only includes within its scope a general outlook of microgrids and the present-day challenges in its use of rural/urban renewable energy production and distribution. The results allowed for the researchers to conclude that microgrids have emerged as a great solution in situations where energy has to be transmitted from a decentralized system to a centralized system. Challenges will arise in the microgrid management and government laws and regulations if rectified microgrids can lead to an equilibrium between decentralized and centralized bulk energy networks.

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Section: Smart Citiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Microgrid Emergence, Integration, and Influence on the Future Energy Generation Equilibrium—A Review

Chartier¹,

Venkiteswaran²,

Rangarajan

et al. 2022

Electronics

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“…Microgrids can increase the main grid's resilience [30,33], provide increased flexibility to the operation of the power system [33] and help incorporate distributed renewable energy generation [34]. They can enhance supply reliability as they offer the potential to provide energy in case of power outages in the superordinate grid [35,33] and sustain the supply of renewable energy even during major disruptions. Due to these reasons, they have gained popularity for resiliency enhancement).…”

Section: Microgrids As Ways Toward Decentralizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, microgrid development is still in a formative phase [36]. Microgrids play a role in offering economic value and business opportunities in transition towards smart cities, because they facilitate interactions among stakeholders that can lead to outcomes in economic values and social welfare [33]. Furthermore, energy trading among microgrids is being developed to support energy change among microgrids [37].…”

Section: Microgrids As Ways Toward Decentralizationmentioning

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Distributed Energy Systems and Energy Communities Under Negotiation

Kojonsaari

Palm

2021

Technol Econ Smart Grids Sustain Energy

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New decentralized energy-generation technologies have turned economies of scale upside down while becoming more economically viable. At the same time, the increased penetration of information technologies has led to new opportunities to manage infrastructure in a less hierarchical, more flexible way. Together with citizen demands for control over energy, these two converging trends has put energy communities (ECs) on the agenda, potentially advancing the transition towards more sustainable energy systems, despite hindrances encountered on the way. This paper presents a case study of the planning process of a sustainable city district in Sweden, using participatory observations and interviews conducted with included stakeholders. We analyse how the included stakeholders has reasoned about establishing a sustainable energy system in the area, including a microgrid. The discussions on a microgrid comprised two parallel discourses, coexisting but seldomly explicitly confronted. The distribution system operator in the area promoted a distributed energy system (DES) solution, while the property developers opted for a microgrid organized more as a citizen energy community (CEC). We discuss why the CEC proponents so far has lost the battle of creating a community owned smart grid. We conclude that the different models, a DES and a CEC, comprise different values and an increased focus on energy communities could shift the transition pathway towards a more decentralized system involving other prioritise than just economical.

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“…One of the key applications of smart grids is microgrids that significantly contribute to the level of reliability and resiliency of the smart grid. These are small, localized grids that can operate either as standalone systems or grid-connected ones [2]. During power disturbances or blackouts, the microgrid disconnects from the main utility network and operates autonomously in islanded mode.…”

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An Optimized and Decentralized Energy Provision System for Smart Cities

Swain

Salkuti

Swain³

2021

Energies

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Energy efficiency and data security of smart grids are one of the major concerns in the context of implementing modern approaches in smart cities. For the intelligent management of energy systems, wireless sensor networks and advanced metering infrastructures have played an essential role in the transformation of traditional cities into smart communities. In this paper, a smart city energy model is proposed in which prosumer communities were built by interconnecting energy self-sufficient households to generate, consume and share clean energy on a decentralized trading platform by integrating blockchain technology with a smart microgrid. The efficiency and stability of the grid network were improved by using several wireless sensor nodes that manage a massive amount of data in the network. However, long communication distances between sensor nodes and the base station can greatly consume the energy of sensors and decrease the network lifespan. Therefore, bio-inspired algorithm approaches were proposed to improve routing by obtaining the shortest path for traversing the entire network and increasing the system performance in terms of the efficient selection of cluster heads, reduced energy consumption, and extended network lifetime. This was carried out by studying the properties and mechanisms of biological systems and applying them in the communication systems in order to obtain the best results for a specific problem. In this comprehensive model, particle swarm optimization and a genetic algorithm are used to search for the optimal solution in any problem space in less processing time.

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Impact Assessment of Microgrid in Smart Cities: Indian Perspective

Cited by 15 publications

References 24 publications

Microgrid Emergence, Integration, and Influence on the Future Energy Generation Equilibrium—A Review

Microgrid Emergence, Integration, and Influence on the Future Energy Generation Equilibrium—A Review

Distributed Energy Systems and Energy Communities Under Negotiation

An Optimized and Decentralized Energy Provision System for Smart Cities

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