Review of Different Methods for Siting and Sizing Distributed Generator

Somefun, Tobilola Emmanuel; Popoola, A. P. I.; Abdulkareem, Ademola; Awelewa, A. A.

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“…Prosumers, who both consume and generate electricity, are at the core of these models, which are essential for sustaining the growth of PV energy generation rates [132]. Table 3 shows the characteristics of distributed renewable generation sources [133][134][135].…”

Section: Energy Generation Through Renewable Energy Sourcesmentioning

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A Review of Renewable Energy Communities: Concepts, Scope, Progress, Challenges, and Recommendations

Ahmed,

Ali,

D’Angola

2024

Sustainability

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In recent times, there has been a significant shift from centralized energy systems to decentralized ones. These systems aim to satisfy local energy needs using renewable resources within the community. This approach leads to decreased complexity and costs, improved efficiency, and enhanced local resilience and supports energy independence, thereby advancing the transition toward zero carbon emissions. Community energy plays a pivotal role globally, particularly in European countries, driven by citizen engagement in generating power from renewable sources. The European Union, known for its focus on social innovation and citizen participation, recognizes the essential role of energy communities in its latest energy strategy. The concept for creating local energy communities or community-based energy projects has gained worldwide attention, demonstrating the economic, environmental, and efficiency benefits for using renewable energy sources. However, there is a noticeable gap in research covering all the updated aspects of renewable energy communities. This article provides an in-depth review of energy communities, especially renewable energy communities, exploring their concepts, scope, benefits, and key activities. It also sheds light on their progress by presenting results and analyses. Some countries have shown significant advancement, others are in the initial stages, and a few have partially adopted REC implementation according to the Renewable Energy Directive II. Additionally, it discusses the main challenges and potential recommendations to enhance the growth of renewable energy communities. This work is a valuable resource, emphasizing the importance of citizen involvement and offering insights into various aspects of community energy for sustainable energy transition. It also provides practical insights and valuable information for policymakers, researchers, industry professionals, and community members who are keen on promoting sustainable, community-driven energy systems.

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confidence: 99%

A Review of Renewable Energy Communities: Concepts, Scope, Progress, Challenges, and Recommendations

Ahmed,

Ali,

D’Angola

2024

Sustainability

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“…Therefore, there must be an optimum reliability level for the generating system based on the system's operational attributes. Some of the indicators used in measuring reliability in mini-grids include loss of power supply probability, equivalent loss factor, loss of load expected, total energy lost, level of autonomy (Somefun et al, 2022) Beneficial Risk Mini-grid risks can be related to various aspects of the business. According to van Bracht et al (2016), mini-grid risks in rural communities include risks of resource price variability, political risks, and risks related to payments…”

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confidence: 99%

Recent Development in Energy Conversion Systems

2024

Frontiers Research Topics

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Frontiers is more than just an open access publisher of scholarly articles: it is a pioneering approach to the world of academia, radically improving the way scholarly research is managed. The grand vision of Frontiers is a world where all people have an equal opportunity to seek, share and generate knowledge. Frontiers provides immediate and permanent online open access to all its publications, but this alone is not enough to realize our grand goals. Frontiers journal seriesThe Frontiers journal series is a multi-tier and interdisciplinary set of openaccess, online journals, promising a paradigm shift from the current review, selection and dissemination processes in academic publishing. All Frontiers journals are driven by researchers for researchers; therefore, they constitute a service to the scholarly community. At the same time, the Frontiers journal series operates on a revolutionary invention, the tiered publishing system, initially addressing specific communities of scholars, and gradually climbing up to broader public understanding, thus serving the interests of the lay society, too. Dedication to qualityEach Frontiers article is a landmark of the highest quality, thanks to genuinely collaborative interactions between authors and review editors, who include some of the world's best academicians. Research must be certified by peers before entering a stream of knowledge that may eventually reach the public -and shape society; therefore, Frontiers only applies the most rigorous and unbiased reviews. Frontiers revolutionizes research publishing by freely delivering the most outstanding research, evaluated with no bias from both the academic and social point of view. By applying the most advanced information technologies, Frontiers is catapulting scholarly publishing into a new generation. What are Frontiers Research Topics?Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers journals series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject. With their unique mix of varied contributions from Original Research to Review Articles, Frontiers Research Topics unify the most influential researchers, the latest key findings and historical advances in a hot research area.

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“…Mini-grids designed for electrification purposes must be reliable (technical), cost-effective (economic), environmentally viable, and socially acceptable, with relevant policies to back them up (Babatunde et al, 2019a). As such, the design, operations, and planning of mini-grids are a multi-criteria problem in which a balance must be attained between conflicting objectives related to engineering, economics, and management (Somefun et al, 2022). To mitigate the multi-criteria challenges related to mini-grid proliferation, stakeholders must choose the right sizing and implementation tools; they must have a robust understanding of the energy needs.…”

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A review of renewable off-grid mini-grids in Sub-Saharan Africa

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Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is home to 75% of the world’s unelectrified population, and approximately 500 million of these live in rural areas. Off-grid mini-grids are being deployed on a large scale to address the region’s electrification inequalities. This study aims to provide a comprehensive review of the research on the off-grid renewable mini-grids in SSA. The study covers the current status of the level of deployment of off-grid mini-grids. It also reviews multi-criteria decision-making models for optimizing engineering, economics, and management interests in mini-grid siting and design in SSA. The statuses of financing, policy, and tariffs for mini-grids in SSA are also studied. Finally, the current status of energy justice research in respect of mini-grids in SSA is reviewed. The study shows the important role of decentralized renewable technologies in the electrification of SSA’s rural population. Within a decade since 2010, the rural electrification rate of SSA has increased from 17% to 28%, and 11 million mini-grid connections are currently operational. Despite these gains, the literature points to several injustices related to the present model by which SSA’s renewable mini-grids are funded, deployed, and operated. Hence, several recommendations are provided for the effective application of the energy justice framework (EJF) for just and equitable mini-grids in SSA.

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Review of Different Methods for Siting and Sizing Distributed Generator

Cited by 7 publications

References 63 publications

A Review of Renewable Energy Communities: Concepts, Scope, Progress, Challenges, and Recommendations

A Review of Renewable Energy Communities: Concepts, Scope, Progress, Challenges, and Recommendations

Recent Development in Energy Conversion Systems

A review of renewable off-grid mini-grids in Sub-Saharan Africa

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