Using SIRES to Enhance Resilience in Remote & Rural Communities

Abstract

Rural and remote communities are more vulnerable to damage caused by extreme events as compared to urban areas. Natural disasters can disrupt basic supplies such as domestic water supply and cooking needs in addition to electricity outages. The recognition of the interlinked nature of food, water and energy has gained momentum over the past few years. Smart Integrated Renewable Energy System (SIRES) has been proposed to handle basic needs such as cooking, domestic and irrigation water supply, and electricity to remote rural areas in an efficient and sustainable manner. Critical needs and non-critical needs for a typical rural community are discussed. The proposed approach is studied for two different scenarios: wind subsystem is inoperable and hydropower is inoperable due to the destruction caused by a natural disaster. In this paper, it is shown that employing SIRES could improve overall resiliency as compared to microgrids.

A Resilience-Oriented Bidirectional ANFIS Framework for Networked Microgrid Management

“…Resilience in a network is shown when it recovers from disturbances and continues to supply loads reliably [13]. Networks that are resilient are able to anticipate and recover from failures, handle and tolerate failures, respond quickly to disturbances, cut back on the causes of failure, and either quickly return to normal or adapt to a new state in a stable manner [14]. However, intensive modeling and optimization are necessary for energy storage to make economic sense.…”