Techno-Economic Design of a Combined Heat and Power Microgrid for a Remote Community in Newfoundland Canada
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...
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| description | 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<sub>2</sub> 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 <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$ \$ $ </tex-math></inline-formula>/kWh, which is only possible for combined heat and power systems. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-4e3d6d5261634430b954aa5a23a039fe2022-12-21T21:23:49ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362021-01-019915489156310.1109/ACCESS.2021.30917389464899Techno-Economic Design of a Combined Heat and Power Microgrid for a Remote Community in Newfoundland CanadaHashem Elsaraf0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5845-9119Mohsin Jamil1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8835-2451Bishwajeet Pandey2https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5593-8985Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, NL, CanadaDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, NL, CanadaBirla Institute of Applied Sciences, Bhimtal, IndiaAround 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<sub>2</sub> 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 <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$ \$ $ </tex-math></inline-formula>/kWh, which is only possible for combined heat and power systems.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9464899/Remote communitiesmicrogridsHOMERrenewable energy generationenergy storage |
| spellingShingle | Hashem Elsaraf Mohsin Jamil Bishwajeet Pandey Techno-Economic Design of a Combined Heat and Power Microgrid for a Remote Community in Newfoundland Canada IEEE Access Remote communities microgrids HOMER renewable energy generation energy storage |
| title | Techno-Economic Design of a Combined Heat and Power Microgrid for a Remote Community in Newfoundland Canada |
| title_full | Techno-Economic Design of a Combined Heat and Power Microgrid for a Remote Community in Newfoundland Canada |
| title_fullStr | Techno-Economic Design of a Combined Heat and Power Microgrid for a Remote Community in Newfoundland Canada |
| title_full_unstemmed | Techno-Economic Design of a Combined Heat and Power Microgrid for a Remote Community in Newfoundland Canada |
| title_short | Techno-Economic Design of a Combined Heat and Power Microgrid for a Remote Community in Newfoundland Canada |
| title_sort | techno economic design of a combined heat and power microgrid for a remote community in newfoundland canada |
| topic | Remote communities microgrids HOMER renewable energy generation energy storage |
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