Techno-economic optimization of a zero emission energy system for a coastal community in Newfoundland, Canada

Islam, Md. Saiful; Das, Barun; Das, Pronob; Rahaman, Habibur

doi:10.1016/j.energy.2020.119709

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“…The results show an LCOE that is 62% lower than the diesel-only base case. This study developed a zero-emissions system that did not require any diesel or natural gas generators [9].…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Techno-Economic Design of a Combined Heat and Power Microgrid for a Remote Community in Newfoundland Canada

Elsaraf

Jamil

Pandey³

2021

IEEE Access

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Around 300 remote communities in Canada rely on diesel for their energy needs, a situation associated with high costs, high emissions, and accessibility problems. Various studies have addressed this problem by proposing renewable energy microgrids, which have a lot of potential due to the abundance and availability of renewable sources. However, there is a lack of studies regarding remote communities in Newfoundland and combined heat and power microgrids. This study chose Cartwright remote community based on consumption and available resources. Both distributed and centralized microgrid components were designed using MS Excel, Polysun, HOMER, and BEOPT. The final system included solar thermal, PV, wind energy, hydroelectric energy and fuel cells for energy generation, and hydrogen as an energy carrier for storage. The solar thermal distributed system reduced the thermal load by 35%. The microgrid reduced diesel consumption by 71% and CO 2 emissions by 9000 tons. Renewable sources provided 100% of the electric load and 63.5% of the thermal load. The microgrid achieved a Levelized cost of -0.0245 $/kWh, which is only possible for combined heat and power systems.INDEX TERMS Remote communities, microgrids, HOMER, renewable energy generation, energy storage.

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“…The results show an LCOE that is 62% lower than the diesel-only base case. This study developed a zero-emissions system that did not require any diesel or natural gas generators [9].…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The hydro turbine considered for this study is the same as the one used in [9]. It is a 100-kW turbine with a 500 L/s design flow rate, 25 years lifetime, 15% pipe losses, 80% efficiency, and 20m available head.…”

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Techno-Economic Design of a Combined Heat and Power Microgrid for a Remote Community in Newfoundland Canada

Elsaraf

Jamil

Pandey³

2021

IEEE Access

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“…The developed 100% RES can reduce carbon emissions significantly. A hybrid photovoltaic/wind/microhydro with pumped hydro storage was investigated by Islam et al [20] for an off-grid coastal community. The system could fully satisfy the power demand using renewable energy and reduce 910,459 kg of CO 2 emissions annually.…”

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Design Optimization and Comparative Analysis of 100% Renewable Energy Systems for Residential Communities in Typical Areas of China When Considering Environmental and Economic Performance

Ling¹,

Cui²,

Zheng³

et al. 2021

Sustainability

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A 100% renewable energy system (RES) satisfies a user’s energy demand using only renewable energy, which is an important energy supply in China given that the government aims to realize carbon neutrality by 2060. The design and operation of 100% RESs in different areas would vary significantly due to the impacts of climates and geographical features. This study aimed to investigate the economic and environmental performance of 100% RESs for residential communities in different areas of China. In total, 30 typical cities were chosen based on the climate characteristics and the availability of renewable energy resources. The genetic algorithm was selected to obtain the optimal design of the 100% RES in each area by taking the minimum total annual cost and the minimum CO2 emissions as optimization objectives. The results showed that 100% RESs were dominated by solar energy and biomass. The investment could be recovered in 8 years if the economic performance was optimized in most areas, but the payback period became longer when the 100% RES was optimized when considering environmental performance. The emissions could be reduced by 86–99% for CO2 and 64–97% for NOx. The results of this study would provide data support for the investment of 100% RESs in rural or suburban areas of China.

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“…HOMER Pro® has widely emerged as a convenient simulation tool for several hybrid renewable energy systems, particularly in off-grid applications (Islam et al, 2021;Jahangir et al, 2020;Lian et al, 2019;Rey et al, 2017;Sen and Bhattacharyya, 2014;Sood and Muthusamy, 2020;Tsai et al, 2019;Uwineza et al, 2021;Vendoti et al, 2021). Various researchers focused on studies related to energy systems such as thermal (Das et al, 2021;Xing et al, 2021), desalination (Atallah et al, 2020;Bundschuh et al, 2021;Padrón et al, 2019), rural electrification (Ahmad et al, 2018;Harish et al, 2022;Li et al, 2020), irrigation (Elkadeem et al, 2019;Haffaf et al, 2021;Rezk et al, 2019), farming (Lukuyu et al, 2019;Teo and Go, 2021), and indigenous communities (Das et al, 2017;Vides-Prado et al, 2018).…”

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confidence: 99%

Microgrid Hybrid Solar/Wind/Diesel and Battery Energy Storage Power Generation System: Application to Koh Samui, Southern Thailand

Khamharnphol

Kamdar

Waewsak

et al. 2022

Int. J. Renew. Energy Dev.

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This paper presents the optimization of a 10 MW solar/wind/diesel power generation system with a battery energy storage system (BESS) for one feeder of the distribution system in Koh Samui, an island in southern Thailand. The main objectives are to maximize the deployment of renewable energy-based power generation and to minimize the levelized cost of energy (LCOE). A hybrid renewable energy-based power generation system, consisting of solar PV, wind turbine generators, diesel generator (DiG), bi-directional grid-tied charging inverter (CONV) and BESS, was simulated using HOMER Pro®. This study accessed the database of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for the Surface meteorology and Solar Energy (SSE) for the global solar radiation and temperature, along with the Modern-Era Retrospective analysis for Research and Applications (MERRA-2) wind database. The simulations show that Scenario 1 (PV/Wind/DiG/BESS/CONV) and Scenario 3 (PV/DiG/BESS/CONV) are the optimal configurations regarding the economic indicators (i.e. minimum net present costs (NPC) of 438 M$ and LCOE of 0.20 $/kWh) and the environmental indicators (i.e. lowest greenhouse gases (GHG) emission avoidances of 6,339 tonnes/year and highest renewable fraction (RF) of 89.4%). Furthermore, the sensitivity analysis illustrates that Scenario 3 offers the optimal system type with the largest annual energy production (AEP). Besides contributing to the body of knowledge of optimization methodologies for microgrid hybrid power systems, the outcome of this work will assist the regional energy practitioners and policy makers regarding optimal configurations of microgrid hybrid systems in the development of a Green Island concept for Koh Samui.

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Techno-economic optimization of a zero emission energy system for a coastal community in Newfoundland, Canada

Cited by 46 publications

References 55 publications

Techno-Economic Design of a Combined Heat and Power Microgrid for a Remote Community in Newfoundland Canada

Techno-Economic Design of a Combined Heat and Power Microgrid for a Remote Community in Newfoundland Canada

Design Optimization and Comparative Analysis of 100% Renewable Energy Systems for Residential Communities in Typical Areas of China When Considering Environmental and Economic Performance

Microgrid Hybrid Solar/Wind/Diesel and Battery Energy Storage Power Generation System: Application to Koh Samui, Southern Thailand

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