Economic and Environmental Investigation of Renewable Energy Sources for Micro-grids coastal areas

The standalone power generating units in Marsa-alam coastal areas depend on fossil fuel to feed electrical loads. This causes many side effects like green gas emissions and high fuel costs, which leads to weak economic growth in this region. While the global interest increases to utilize renewable r...

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Main Author: Samir Dawoud
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Language:Arabic
Published: Faculty of engineering, Tanta University 2022-03-01
Series:Journal of Engineering Research - Egypt
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Online Access:https://erjeng.journals.ekb.eg/article_228585_d7c44e6ff3d7b59353d997e46eaaf9aa.pdf
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description The standalone power generating units in Marsa-alam coastal areas depend on fossil fuel to feed electrical loads. This causes many side effects like green gas emissions and high fuel costs, which leads to weak economic growth in this region. While the global interest increases to utilize renewable resources due to several benefits and renewable technologies in solar energy and wind turbine. The objective of this article is to design a tecno-economic and feasibility study of using hybrid renewable energy systems (HRES) over the conventional resources. Eight different types of models including solar photovoltaic (SPVs) /wind turbines (WTs)/ power converter /diesel/battery are designed using HOMER software. The key factors are used to make the decision such as net present cost (NPC), net Levelized costs of energy (LCOEs), the renewable fraction (RF), load demand, availability of the HRES and greenhouse gases emissions. The lifetime and capacity of WTs, SPVs, converter, and battery, nominal discount rate, are used to decide the best optimal solution of HRES. These analyses compared the performance of the micro-grid and showed that the optimal micro-grid is techno-economically feasible based on LCOEs. The LCOEs and net present cost (NPC) of optimum source ($0.224/kWh and $103M) are the least compared to the other hybrid source configurations.
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spelling doaj.art-42593b74a0c94cc8b95feb8e8491fec02023-06-20T20:00:05ZaraFaculty of engineering, Tanta UniversityJournal of Engineering Research - Egypt2356-94412735-48732022-03-0161919710.21608/erjeng.2022.127502.1057228585Economic and Environmental Investigation of Renewable Energy Sources for Micro-grids coastal areasSamir Dawoud0electrical power engineering , faculty of engineering, Tanta university, TantaThe standalone power generating units in Marsa-alam coastal areas depend on fossil fuel to feed electrical loads. This causes many side effects like green gas emissions and high fuel costs, which leads to weak economic growth in this region. While the global interest increases to utilize renewable resources due to several benefits and renewable technologies in solar energy and wind turbine. The objective of this article is to design a tecno-economic and feasibility study of using hybrid renewable energy systems (HRES) over the conventional resources. Eight different types of models including solar photovoltaic (SPVs) /wind turbines (WTs)/ power converter /diesel/battery are designed using HOMER software. The key factors are used to make the decision such as net present cost (NPC), net Levelized costs of energy (LCOEs), the renewable fraction (RF), load demand, availability of the HRES and greenhouse gases emissions. The lifetime and capacity of WTs, SPVs, converter, and battery, nominal discount rate, are used to decide the best optimal solution of HRES. These analyses compared the performance of the micro-grid and showed that the optimal micro-grid is techno-economically feasible based on LCOEs. The LCOEs and net present cost (NPC) of optimum source ($0.224/kWh and $103M) are the least compared to the other hybrid source configurations.https://erjeng.journals.ekb.eg/article_228585_d7c44e6ff3d7b59353d997e46eaaf9aa.pdfcost of energyhomerrenewable energysolar energygreenhouse gas emission
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Economic and Environmental Investigation of Renewable Energy Sources for Micro-grids coastal areas
Journal of Engineering Research - Egypt
cost of energy
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renewable energy
solar energy
greenhouse gas emission
title Economic and Environmental Investigation of Renewable Energy Sources for Micro-grids coastal areas
title_full Economic and Environmental Investigation of Renewable Energy Sources for Micro-grids coastal areas
title_fullStr Economic and Environmental Investigation of Renewable Energy Sources for Micro-grids coastal areas
title_full_unstemmed Economic and Environmental Investigation of Renewable Energy Sources for Micro-grids coastal areas
title_short Economic and Environmental Investigation of Renewable Energy Sources for Micro-grids coastal areas
title_sort economic and environmental investigation of renewable energy sources for micro grids coastal areas
topic cost of energy
homer
renewable energy
solar energy
greenhouse gas emission
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