Power generation expansion plan and sustainability in a developing country: A multi-criteria decision analysis

Khan, Imran

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.02.161

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“…Bangladesh has been chosen as a case study as it has moved from a developing country to a lower middle income country category very recently, and so the government of Bangladesh is developing an energy-related policy for future development, which includes power generation sector [61]. Many developing nations are also moving in the same direction as Bangladesh at the moment and, thus, learnings from Bangladesh could be helpful for these to formulate their energy policies well in advance.…”

Section: The Case Of Bangladeshmentioning

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Energy-saving behaviour as a demand-side management strategy in the developing world: the case of Bangladesh

Khan

2019

Int J Energy Environ Eng

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Although demand-side management (DSM) needs to be more customer centred, either with or without smart technologies (e.g. smart grid), less attention has been paid to the developing world in relation to DSM strategy development. The main reasons have been lack of appropriate technology and capital costs. Importantly, there are alternative DSM strategies that require minimum or no cost to implement and provide immediate results, of which energy-saving behaviour of the occupants at residences is one. This study explores the potentiality of this energy-saving behaviour as a DSM strategy for the least developed economies, focusing particularly on Bangladesh. The literature suggests that energy-saving behaviour could reduce energy demand by a maximum of 21.9%. However, this potential DSM scheme seems underestimated in the national DSM programme of Bangladesh. The Energy Efficiency and Conservation Master Plan (EECMP) of Bangladesh (a DSM program) shows that efficiency improvement in the use of home appliances could reduce electricity demand in the residential sector by about 28.8%, but this does require a long time to be implemented, whereas the inclusion of energy-saving behaviour as a demand response strategy in residences along with the EECMP might achieve demand reduction of up to 50.7%. Although the findings from this study are specific to Bangladesh, these could be useful guidelines for the policymakers of other developing nations where national DSM strategy development is underway.

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Section: The Case Of Bangladeshmentioning

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Energy-saving behaviour as a demand-side management strategy in the developing world: the case of Bangladesh

Khan

2019

Int J Energy Environ Eng

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“…Bangladesh has already experienced a few success and fruitful execution of solar-based energy usage [59]. The nation has very nearly 234 MW energy production potential from sunlight-based home frameworks [60]. Bangladesh possesses a capability of 50,174 MW electricity generation from solar PV, as displayed in Table 2 [61].…”

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Renewable Energy for Sustainable Growth and Development: An Evaluation of Law and Policy of Bangladesh

Karim

Islam

et al. 2019

Sustainability

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Bangladesh's constant growth with an annual 6% plus Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for more than the last two decades and achievements in other socio-economic metrics in recent times is impressive and recognized by various global authoritative bodies. The extent of overwhelming economic ventures in the private sector coupled with the commitments of the government clearly demonstrates the transformation of the country from a primarily agro-based economy to one influenced by the manufacturing and service sectors. Bangladesh is fortunate to have fossil fuel reserves on a limited scale, though these are not enough to run the ongoing massive scale development activities, both in private and public sectors. Thus, the constant and uninterrupted supply of energy at an affordable price remains a serious concern for the successive governments. Therefore, this issue of supply of constant energy has turned to be an important part in the national development agenda. Besides, the country is one of the worst victim nations of the devastating effects of global warming and climate change. As Bangladesh is geographically located in a favorable place in the world map with the availability of plenty of renewable energy sources (RES), the policymakers started to take initiatives leading to exploiting these sources to meet the energy demand of the country. There are both prospects and administrative, legal, technological, socio-cultural and environmental challenges. To address these challenges, it requires comprehensive policy initiatives. A good number of technical and scientific research containing findings and recommendations are available. This paper, which is based on adopting a qualitative research methodology where the contents of secondary sources were analyzed, is an initial attempt to highlight the renewable energy developments in Bangladesh, and subsequently, to evaluate the relevant legal and policy initiatives in the light of international best practices. We advance several recommendations that the stakeholders can consider exploiting RES effectively to attain inclusive, equitable and sustainable development in Bangladesh. These include, inter alia: (1) Enhancing government participation to lead the development of renewable energy (RE); (2) ensuring localization of RE technology; (3) reducing the expenses of energy generation through RES and providing assistance in initial investments; (4) introducing comprehensive legal and regulatory policy for the development of RE industry in Bangladesh; and (5) conducting effective public awareness. Sustainability 2019, 11, 5774 2 of 30 every year [25], and starting from 2014, more than 164 nations have embraced the renewables targets 199 [26]. In 2012, the utilization of RES helped to provide up to 13.2% of the worldwide essential energy 200 supply. The same figure rose to 22% of worldwide power usage in 2013. It was estimated that this 201 number is expected to rise to 26% in 2020. To share this in a practical setting, this number is greater 202 than the current overall power demands...

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“…Additionally, different solution methods like multi-criteria optimization techniques have been developed to solve the multi-criteria expansion planning problems [26,27]. With two conflicting objectives, considered in the optimization process, it is impossible to get a single solution that can optimize both objectives simultaneously.…”

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Sub-Transmission Network Expansion Planning Considering Regional Energy Systems: A Bi-Level Approach

2019

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In order to facilitate the transformation of the existing generation and transmission networks’ structure into a scalable and competitive grid structure, this paper introduced regional energy systems (RGESs) that have the role of aggregating distributed energy resources (DERs) and flexible loads. The economic justification for the expansion of sub-transmission networks in the presence of regional energy systems was also investigated. To achieve this goal, multi-criteria optimization solutions were employed to find techno-economic solutions. While solving the proposed multi-criteria optimization problem, a Pareto front was determined to show the tradeoff between the criteria examined. In addition, fuzzy satisfying and the max-min method were used for finding equilibrium point. In order to demonstrate the performance and effectiveness of the proposed model, a realistic sub-transmission system in Guilan Province, Iran, was used as a test system and the results were compared to those from a traditional sub-transmission expansion planning model.

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Power generation expansion plan and sustainability in a developing country: A multi-criteria decision analysis

Cited by 93 publications

References 78 publications

Energy-saving behaviour as a demand-side management strategy in the developing world: the case of Bangladesh

Energy-saving behaviour as a demand-side management strategy in the developing world: the case of Bangladesh

Renewable Energy for Sustainable Growth and Development: An Evaluation of Law and Policy of Bangladesh

Sub-Transmission Network Expansion Planning Considering Regional Energy Systems: A Bi-Level Approach

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