Off-grid rural area electrification through solar-diesel hybrid minigrids in Bangladesh: resource-efficient design principles in practice

Chowdhury, Shahriar Ahmed; Aziz, Shakila; Groh, Sebastian; Kirchhoff, Hannes; Filho, Walter Leal

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2015.02.062

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“…Later, many tried proposing the concept of a mini-grid for meeting energy loads of small range consumers. A few such projects conducted for Bangladesh location are discussed in [53,54]. Chowdhury et al [52] indicated that the "mini-grid could be a useful tool to achieve the Sustainable Energy Access for All (SEforALL)" [55] goals as the proposed hybrid mini-grid system is technically and economically viable for Bangladesh.…”

Section: Global Renewable Energy Scenario: Policy Framework and Currementioning

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A State-of-the-Art Review on the Drive of Renewables in Gujarat, State of India: Present Situation, Barriers and Future Initiatives

Elavarasan¹,

Shafiullah

Kumar

et al. 2019

Energies

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Given the recent increasing public focus on climate change issues, the share of electricity generation by renewable energy resources is increasing day by day. Increased renewables share will give us robust, sustainable, and climate-friendly energy systems for the future. Renewable energy penetration with the current power systems needs substantial research, planning and development which are now the primary focus throughout the world. In this study, a global renewable energy scenario is explained in detail in contrast with India, considering a case study elucidating the comprehensive review of the Gujarat state in India. The primary focus is on Gujarat state's actions plans to pertain to harvest renewable energy and maximizing its share in the energy mix. This study examines the actions and the policies adopted by the Gujarat government to overcome the potential barriers in order to support non-conventional as well as renewable energy development. It also investigates the numerous techno-economic and social constraints with possible solutions in promoting the deployment of upcoming renewable energy resources across Gujarat. This study can be used as a guideline for the government, policymakers, utilities, stakeholders and researchers to promote an increased renewable energy share in Gujarat as well as at other places around the globe.Energies 2020, 13, 40 2 of 30 Development Goals (SDGs) in January 2016, with 17 goals, which also aimed at achieving affordable and clean energy for all [4]. The government of India, under the SDG's India Index, is planning to deliver a complete view on the "social, economic, and environmental status of the country". The National Institution for Transforming India (NITI), shortly referred to as NITI Aayog, started a broad exercise to measure the progress of "India and its States towards the SDGs for 2030" [5]. As of 2010, the global power production from non-hydro renewable energy resources accounted for about 3.3%. The support from the new policies, there has been a growth in renewables, which increased to 5% by 2011 [6]. In the early days, most industrialized countries were considered as the roots of renewable energy innovation. However, in recent years, many developing countries, especially China and India, have become popular leaders in renewable energy use, as well as an innovation [7].Considering India's current energy situation, it should decrease the emissions from the energy sector in the future and is expected to curb the rise in temperatures to below 2 • C by 2100 to support the global effect indicated in the Paris agreement [8]. About 44% of India's rural households, i.e., 138 million, produce lighting through electricity, an efficient and reliable source of power. The remaining 55% primarily use kerosene, an inefficient source and its price have also become costly [9]. The depletion of natural resources and increasing demand is ubiquitous in all states of India. There is a shortage of energy, and hence, it slows down India's industrial and economic growth. The erection o...

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Section: Global Renewable Energy Scenario: Policy Framework and Currementioning

confidence: 99%

A State-of-the-Art Review on the Drive of Renewables in Gujarat, State of India: Present Situation, Barriers and Future Initiatives

Elavarasan¹,

Shafiullah

Kumar

et al. 2019

Energies

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“…On [69] the effects of the thermal restrictions in the planning of distributed energy units have been investigated, in order to elaborate on the planning of DER units. On [70] sustainable energy strategies have been applied to small MG's, while there's a high penetration of distributed generation resources based on renewable energy. Thus, the authors suggest the energetic policy pays more attention to small scale networks to mitigate global warming and the effects of climate change.…”

Section: Mg Operationmentioning

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Distributed Energetic Resources: Trend, Control and Operation

Hernández¹,

Gómez²,

Rivas³

2017

IJET

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Abstract-Humanity's growing energetic demand and the need for the electric fluid coming to not interconnected zones in the world has brought with it the deployment of a huge amount of researches related to the distributed generation, the distributed energetic resources, and the smart networks. Those have been approached as mechanisms for global growth and energetic supply. Thus, this article details the researches led by a significant number of experts who have definitely generated the fundamental pillars of evolution regarding network. Moreover, when it comes to its core, where the trend, the control and the operation of the new generation schemes, they provide the change from a traditional energetic system to a sustainable energetic system. Keywords -Algorithms, renewable energy sources, distributed generation, artificial intelligence, microgrid. I. INTRODUCTION Nowadays, traditional energy systems face different types of issues such as the high amount of carbon dioxide (CO2), high generation costs, network tension variations, overloaded lines, dynamic stability issues, and service interruptions.[1], [2]. In order to face these issues, an innovative and very common approach is the generation of electric energy at a local level. This type of energy generation is called Distributed Energy (DG) and the resources that provide it are called Distributed Energetic Resources (DER) [3], [4]. In fact, due to the energy generation in proximity to the load centers, the distributed generation resources would solve the demand over the transmission networks. Today, different countries are trying to increase the penetration of distributed generation in their electronic networks. Each country attempts to use in the most appropriate way the distributed energetic resources based on its resources and conditions. Unfortunately, each DER type has its inconveniences. For example, a photovoltaic system cannot generate electricity for a continued 24h period, because its energetic source is the sun, which does not provide radiation at all times. The same applies to wind power, because the wind currents are not constant, and therefore, the required speed is not fully available for the system's continued operation. Typically, intermittence is a disadvantage of the DG resources. That is why there's a need for integrating the DER which is crucial when providing high-quality electricity and satisfying the system's demand. [5], [6].The DERs are classified into two categories: Dispatchable and not dispatchable. The first one is related to resources which output potency can be adjusted by the network operators. The second one indicates that the generated energy of the DERs cannot be adjusted by the network operators. For this last category, a particular example would the wind and solar generation units.The Microgrids (MG) are an integrated way of DER, where the loads and storage units are installed for supplying energy to small communities such as universities, hospitals, schools, towns, paths, shopping malls, as well as industrial projects. T...

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“…This feature results from the ability of HRES to take advantage of the complementary seasonal and diurnal (night/ day) characteristics of the available renewable energy resources at a given site (Ramli et al, 2015;Chowdhury et al, 2015). Fig.…”

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An environmentally friendly factory in Egypt based on hybrid photovoltaic/wind/diesel/battery system

Diab

Lan

Zhang

et al. 2016

Journal of Cleaner Production

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Keywords:Hybrid PV/wind/diesel/battery system Feasibility study of the optimum system Greenhouse gases (GHG) emission Cost of energy (COE) Net present cost (NPC) a b s t r a c tThe potential for using clean energy technologies in Egypt is good given the abundant solar insolation and wind resources. In contrast, many factories have suffered significant losses due to frequent blackouts in Egypt, especially at peak times of load demand. Moreover, the aim of this paper is to provide a detailed feasibility and a techno-economic evaluation of using hybrid photovoltaic/wind/diesel/battery system to satisfy the electrical energy needs for an environmentally friendly factory in New Borg El Arab city, Egypt and the city surrounding the factory. Utilizing the well-known Hybrid Optimization of Multiple Electric Renewables software to get the optimal configuration of a hybrid renewable energy system, based on the user inputs of loads, components costs, components technical details, solar and wind resources availability. The hybrid renewable energy system consisting of 60 kW of photovoltaic arrays, 100 kW of wind turbines, 40 kW of diesel generators, 50 kW of power converters and 600 batteries is found to be the optimal hybrid configuration in accordance with the system net present cost and cost of energy. The net present cost of this system is $1,684,118 and the cost of energy is $0.19/kWh. Additionally, the optimum system is the most environmentally friendly system in comparison with the other systems configurations specifically the diesel only system, because it is able to reduce a significant amount of greenhouse gases emissions. Strive to achieve the plan to become New Borg El Arab city, the first environmentally friendly Egyptian city in the near future by increasing the applications in this city that depend on the clean energy. Additionally, the same work could be applied to any other site in the world. Finally, an accurate separate techno-economic analysis of each component in the optimum hybrid renewable energy system is carried out in this study.

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Off-grid rural area electrification through solar-diesel hybrid minigrids in Bangladesh: resource-efficient design principles in practice

Cited by 60 publications

References 12 publications

A State-of-the-Art Review on the Drive of Renewables in Gujarat, State of India: Present Situation, Barriers and Future Initiatives

A State-of-the-Art Review on the Drive of Renewables in Gujarat, State of India: Present Situation, Barriers and Future Initiatives

Distributed Energetic Resources: Trend, Control and Operation

An environmentally friendly factory in Egypt based on hybrid photovoltaic/wind/diesel/battery system

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