Methodology for the Energy Need Assessment to Effectively Design and Deploy Mini-Grids for Rural Electrification

Autor: Carlo Tacconelli, Paolo Cherubini, Riccardo Del Citto, Valeria Gambino, Romano Giglioli, Andrea Micangeli
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2019
Předmět:
Control and Optimization
data collection
Access to energy
Data collection
Demand profile
Energy consumptions
Energy need assessment
Methodology
Mini-grid
Off-grid
Rural development
Rural electrification
Renewable Energy
Sustainability and the Environment
Energy Engineering and Power Technology
Energy (miscellaneous)
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Computer science
020209 energy
Context (language use)
02 engineering and technology
010501 environmental sciences
access to energy
demand profile
energy consumptions
energy need assessment
methodology
mini-grid
off-grid
rural development
rural electrification
01 natural sciences
lcsh:Technology
Order (exchange)
0202 electrical engineering
electronic engineering
information engineering
Renewable Energy
Engineering (miscellaneous)
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Sustainability and the Environment
business.industry
lcsh:T
Electricity generation
Risk analysis (engineering)
Distributed generation
Needs assessment
Electricity
business
Zdroj: Energies, Vol 12, Iss 3, p 574 (2019)
Energies
Volume 12
Issue 3
Pages: 574
ISSN: 1996-1073
Popis: In order to successfully deploy a large number of decentralized energy systems in developing countries, it is necessary to standardize effective methodologies and procedures to develop off-grid/mini-grid systems. Considering that the energy need assessment provides inputs and assumptions used in business modelling and mini-grid design, the accuracy of its results directly affects the technical and financial feasibility studies. Thus, the approach for applying a proven methodology for the energy need assessment of rural communities is aimed at obtaining reliable input data for the mini-grid development. This helps in reducing both the financial challenges by mitigating the uncertainties in electricity demand and the technical challenges by contributing to adequately size off-grid power generation systems, with a view to boost toward a common overall objective of mini-grid’s optimization methods and tools. Hence, taking into consideration that target communities differ in terms of needs and context conditions, the proposed paper describes an inclusive methodology that can be adapted case-by-case. It provides an effective applied solution the lack of proven guidelines from project developers or literature, giving priority to data collection methods able to achieve a large sample representative of the market, with high accuracy in estimating the energy consumptions from electricity substitutes.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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