Towards Self-Sustainable Island Grids through Optimal Utilization of Renewable Energy Potential and Community Engagement

Autor: Andrew Barney, Nikola Tomašević, Michael Short, Heracles Polatidis, Dana Abi Ghanem, Marko Jelić, Gobind Pillai, Marko Batić, Tracey Crosbie
Jazyk: angličtina
Předmět:
Control and Optimization
energy management
Status quo
Energy management
Computer science
020209 energy
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Energy Engineering and Power Technology
02 engineering and technology
010501 environmental sciences
lcsh:Technology
7. Clean energy
01 natural sciences
renewable energy
sustainability
island communities
demand flexibility
optimization
0202 electrical engineering
electronic engineering
information engineering
Energy supply
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Energy Systems
Engineering (miscellaneous)
Energisystem
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
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Flexibility (engineering)
Community engagement
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Renewable Energy
Sustainability and the Environment
business.industry
Energy security
Environmental economics
Renewable energy
Sustainability
business
Energy (miscellaneous)
Zdroj: Energies
Energies; Volume 13; Issue 13; Pages: 3386
Energies, Vol 13, Iss 3386, p 3386 (2020)
ISSN: 1996-1073
DOI: 10.3390/en13133386
Popis: Solving the issue of energy security for geographical islands presents a one-of-a-kind problem that has to be tackled from multiple sides and requires an interdisciplinary approach that transcends just technical and social aspects. With many islands suffering in terms of limited and costly energy supply due to their remote location, providing a self-sustainable energy system is of utmost importance for these communities. In order to improve upon the status quo, novel solutions and projects aimed at increasing sustainability not only have to consider optimal utilization of renewable energy potentials in accordance with local conditions, but also must include active community participation. This paper analyzes both of these aspects for island communities and brings them together in an optimization scenario that is utilized to determine the relationship between supposed demand flexibility levels and achievable savings in a setting with variable renewable generation. The results, specifically discussed for a use case with real-world data for the La Graciosa island in Spain, show that boosting community participation and thus unlocking crucial demand flexibility, can be used as a powerful tool to augment novel generation technologies with savings from flexibility at around 7.5% of what is achieved purely by renewable sources.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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