Renewable energy projects to electrify rural communities in Cape Verde

Ranaboldo, Matteo; Domenech, Bruno; Ferrenbach, David Vilar; Ferrer‐Martí, Laia; Moreno, Rafael Pastor; García‐Villoria, Alberto

doi:10.1016/j.apenergy.2013.12.043

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“…The study shows that, when the power produced by the renewable sources is greater than the demanded power and the battery bank is completely charged, the the oversizing of the energy can be used for the pumping of water. In [10] the authors study how to increase access to electricity to two remote communities in Cape Verde using mathematical modeling based on Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP). Due to the badly geographical and dispersed nature of villages, the frequent incidence of blackouts, the high cost of diesel fuel, the pollution problem, the non electrification of the community of Santiago island, three types of configurations (C1, C2, C3) design has been studied to solved this problem.…”

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Hybrid energy systems for remote areas and the role of storage

Pendieu

Anglani

2015

2015 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology (ICIT)

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This paper presents a review of different schemes of hybrid energy systems (HES) in islanding mode for remote areas with a focus on solutions for remote electrification which are basically composed by one or a mixed of different energy sources and storage systems. The paper analysis the widely used mathematical approaches for optimization, sizing and modeling of HES for isolated electrification areas including the role of storage system. This paper also analysis the advantages and disadvantages of different solutions proposed.

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Hybrid energy systems for remote areas and the role of storage

Pendieu

Anglani

2015

2015 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology (ICIT)

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“…To do so, the simulated annealing algorithm is used to minimize costs in two phases: first the low voltage network is conceived, identifying the consumption points to be electrified through the microgrid or individually; and then the medium voltage network is designed, determining the location for transformers and the generation system. Applications of ViPOR for the analysis and design of electrification projects in remote areas can be found in Ghana (Nässen, Evertsson, & Andresson, ), India (Kumar & Banerjee, ; Rout & Parida, ), and Peru (Ranaboldo et al, ). Figure shows an example of solution obtained for a fictitious community using ViPOR.…”

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Comparison of various approaches to design wind‐PV rural electrification projects in remote areas of developing countries

Domenech

Ferrer‐Martí

Pastor

2018

WIREs Energy & Environment

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Nowadays, around 1.1 billion people in rural and remote areas of developing countries remain without electricity. Stand-alone projects that combine the wind and photovoltaic generation technologies as well as microgrids and individual supplies for the distribution network are an adequate strategy to reach such isolated regions. However, the design of electrification projects is complex, having to define the best combination of generation and distribution technologies, under a challenging social context and tight technoeconomic resources. In order to ease decision-making, several tools have been developed in the literature and are here reviewed, grouped into three main categories: optimization processes, aiming to minimize project costs subject to technical constraints, through exact or heuristic algorithms; multicriteria processes, using different methods to select the best among a set of predefined scenarios according to economic, technical, social, and environmental criteria; and systematized tools, that have been developed to provide user-friendly interface for their larger dissemination in different regions and contexts. Hence, this paper aims to provide researchers and practitioners an analysis of the advantages and limitations of approaches used over the last decade when addressing the designing of wind and/or photovoltaic electrification projects for extremely poor and isolated areas in developing countries, as well as some areas for further research.

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“…Its application has been demonstrated for a number of developing and emerging countries, such as Nigeria [36], Ethiopia [37], and Cameroon [38]. Furthermore, researchers developed similar tools to HOMER, e.g., Ranaboldo et al [39,40] and Huyskens and Blechinger [41] including additional features, such as a one minute resolution. Nevertheless, these tools enable the investigation of one specific electrification scheme, while neglecting geographic comparisons for infrastructural planning.…”

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Visualizing National Electrification Scenarios for Sub-Saharan African Countries

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Some 630 million people representing two-thirds of all Africans have no access to electricity, which is identified as a key barrier towards further development. Three main electrification options are considered within our work: grid extensions, mini-grids and solar home systems (SHS). A methodology is applied to all sub-Saharan African countries to identify in high geospatial resolution which electrification option is appropriate taking into account datasets for night light imagery, population distribution and grid infrastructure. Four different scenarios are considered reflecting grid development and electrification constraints due to low population density. The results clearly indicate a dominating role of SHS for achieving a fast electrification of the not supplied people. The share of supplied people by mini-grids is found to be rather low while grid extension serves a large share of the population. The decisive factors for these distinctions are population density and distance to grid. We applied several scenarios and sensitivities to understand the influence of these key parameters. The highest trade-off happens between SHS and grid extension depending on the selected thresholds. Mini-grid deployments remain in the range of 8 to 21%.

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Renewable energy projects to electrify rural communities in Cape Verde

Cited by 65 publications

References 25 publications

Hybrid energy systems for remote areas and the role of storage

Hybrid energy systems for remote areas and the role of storage

Comparison of various approaches to design wind‐PV rural electrification projects in remote areas of developing countries

Visualizing National Electrification Scenarios for Sub-Saharan African Countries

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