Sustainable energy modelling of non-interconnected Mediterranean islands

Kougias, Ioannis; Szabó, S.; Nikitas, Alexandros; Theodossiou, Nicolaos

doi:10.1016/j.renene.2018.10.090

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“…CAVs also need to be cleaner than ever before. Becoming electric is an option provided that the electricity will be produced by renewable energy sources and thus will be non-polluting as Kougias et al (2019) [38] and Kougias et al (2020) [39] strongly recommend for the right electromobility model. CAVs need to be autonomous and connected but they should also be strongly linked to electrification and shared usage.…”

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Artificial Intelligence, Transport and the Smart City: Definitions and Dimensions of a New Mobility Era

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Artificial intelligence (AI) is a powerful concept still in its infancy that has the potential, if utilised responsibly, to provide a vehicle for positive change that could promote sustainable transitions to a more resource-efficient livability paradigm. AI with its deep learning functions and capabilities can be employed as a tool which empowers machines to solve problems that could reform urban landscapes as we have known them for decades now and help with establishing a new era; the era of the “smart city”. One of the key areas that AI can redefine is transport. Mobility provision and its impact on urban development can be significantly improved by the employment of intelligent transport systems in general and automated transport in particular. This new breed of AI-based mobility, despite its machine-orientation, has to be a user-centred technology that “understands” and “satisfies” the human user, the markets and the society as a whole. Trust should be built, and risks should be eliminated, for this transition to take off. This paper provides a novel conceptual contribution that thoroughly discusses the scarcely studied nexus of AI, transportation and the smart city and how this will affect urban futures. It specifically covers key smart mobility initiatives referring to Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs), autonomous Personal and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (PAVs and UAVs) and Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS), but also interventions that may work as enabling technologies for transport, such as the Internet of Things (IoT) and Physical Internet (PI) or reflect broader transformations like Industry 4.0. This work is ultimately a reference tool for researchers and city planners that provides clear and systematic definitions of the ambiguous smart mobility terms of tomorrow and describes their individual and collective roles underpinning the nexus in scope.

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Section: Connected and Autonomous Vehiclesmentioning

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“…In this context, several islands have developed energy planning strategies to reduce their dependency on fossil fuels (Garcia and Meisen, 2008;Godina et al, 2015;Kougias et al, 2019;Meza et al, 2019); some have already reached 100% energy self-sufficiency (Sperling, 2017). Currently, the use of photovoltaic (PV) and wind-based power systems combined with lithium-ion batteries is preferred due to the good availability of resources and the maturity of these technologies (Thomas et al, 2016;Hall and Swingler, 2018).…”

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Benefits of a Diversified Energy Mix for Islanded Systems

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Achieving energy self-sufficiency is a major challenge for remote areas, especially islands. Various technologies have recently been developed to exploit renewable resources in such areas in order to reduce dependency on fossil fuels. This work focuses on the situation of Easter Island, a representative example of a remote area, and explores the pros and cons of three fully renewable energy mixes used to meet local requirements. This investigation reveals that, while a classic photovoltaic/battery combination allows demands to be met, the installations need to be oversized, leading to a 73% loss in the total energy produced. By adding alternative energy production sources such as wind turbines and pyrolysis, as well as alternative storage systems such as hydrogen-based storage, the energy loss is divided by a factor of 5. This more diverse energy mix enables a reasonable electricity price of 0.18 e/kWh, which is comparable to the current local prices. This work reinforces the importance of complementary energy production and storage systems to efficiently meet the energy requirements of islands.

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“…Governments, companies and academics worldwide are becoming increasingly aware of the renewable and sustainable energy transition (Reid et al, 2010;Marcucci and Turton, 2015). This is supported, among others by the Framework Strategy for a Resilient Energy Union, in which the European Union has highlighted its energy priorities for transition to a low-carbon, secure and competitive economy (Kougias et al, 2019). Recently, battery storage has been emphasized as an effective way to increase share of renewables in photovoltaic energy systems utilized in farming (Lane et al, 2019).…”

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Sea Water Activated Magnesium-Air Reserve Batteries: Calculation of Specific Energy and Energy Density for Various Cell Geometries

Löwy¹,

Mátyás²

2019

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We address sustainable energy issues via scrutinizing magnesium-air reserve batteries. Such energy storage systems can hold their energy indefinitely, releasing it on demand, in emergency situations. Main advantage of water-activated batteries is that their electrolyte is supplied by the environment, where they get deployed, hence, only light weight electrodes and battery frames should be transported, rather than the significantly heavier aqueous electrolyte. Recent literature in the field is reviewed. One merit of this account is that recently, battery storage has become an effective way to increase share of renewables in photovoltaic energy systems utilized in farming. While the specific energy of reserve batteries can be determined unequivocally, their energy density calculation needs a clear definition of the considered battery volume. Therefore, this paper proposes a new modality of evaluating specific energy and energy density of seawater-activated metal-air reserve batteries for prismatic and cylindrical geometries, respectively.

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Sustainable energy modelling of non-interconnected Mediterranean islands

Cited by 64 publications

References 54 publications

Artificial Intelligence, Transport and the Smart City: Definitions and Dimensions of a New Mobility Era

Artificial Intelligence, Transport and the Smart City: Definitions and Dimensions of a New Mobility Era

Benefits of a Diversified Energy Mix for Islanded Systems

Sea Water Activated Magnesium-Air Reserve Batteries: Calculation of Specific Energy and Energy Density for Various Cell Geometries

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