GIS-Based Assessment of Hybrid Pumped Hydro Storage as a Potential Solution for the Clean Energy Transition: The Case of the Kardia Lignite Mine, Western Greece
Planned decommissioning of coal-fired plants in Europe requires innovative technical and economic strategies to support coal regions on their path towards a climate-resilient future. The repurposing of open pit mines into hybrid pumped hydro power storage (HPHS) of excess energy from the electric gr...
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| author | Pavlos Krassakis Andreas Karavias Evangelia Zygouri Christos Roumpos Georgios Louloudis Konstantina Pyrgaki Nikolaos Koukouzas Thomas Kempka Dimitris Karapanos |
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| description | Planned decommissioning of coal-fired plants in Europe requires innovative technical and economic strategies to support coal regions on their path towards a climate-resilient future. The repurposing of open pit mines into hybrid pumped hydro power storage (HPHS) of excess energy from the electric grid, and renewable sources will contribute to the EU Green Deal, increase the economic value, stabilize the regional job market and contribute to the EU energy supply security. This study aims to present a preliminary phase of a geospatial workflow used to evaluate land suitability by implementing a multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) technique with an advanced geographic information system (GIS) in the context of an interdisciplinary feasibility study on HPHS in the Kardia lignite open pit mine (Western Macedonia, Greece). The introduced geospatial analysis is based on the utilization of the constraints and ranking criteria within the boundaries of the abandoned mine regarding specific topographic and proximity criteria. The applied criteria were selected from the literature, while for their weights, the experts’ judgement was introduced by implementing the analytic hierarchy process (AHP), in the framework of the ATLANTIS research program. According to the results, seven regions were recognized as suitable, with a potential energy storage capacity from 1.09 to 5.16 GWh. Particularly, the present study’s results reveal that 9.27% (212,884 m<sup>2</sup>) of the area had a very low suitability, 15.83% (363,599 m<sup>2</sup>) had a low suitability, 23.99% (550,998 m<sup>2</sup>) had a moderate suitability, 24.99% (573,813 m<sup>2</sup>) had a high suitability, and 25.92% (595,125 m<sup>2</sup>) had a very high suitability for the construction of the upper reservoir. The proposed semi-automatic geospatial workflow introduces an innovative tool that can be applied to open pit mines globally to identify the optimum design for an HPHS system depending on the existing lower reservoir. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-8a0c00a0d8a140e0938406b3342032af2023-12-01T00:24:17ZengMDPI AGSensors1424-82202023-01-0123259310.3390/s23020593GIS-Based Assessment of Hybrid Pumped Hydro Storage as a Potential Solution for the Clean Energy Transition: The Case of the Kardia Lignite Mine, Western GreecePavlos Krassakis0Andreas Karavias1Evangelia Zygouri2Christos Roumpos3Georgios Louloudis4Konstantina Pyrgaki5Nikolaos Koukouzas6Thomas Kempka7Dimitris Karapanos8Centre for Research and Technology, Hellas (CERTH), 52 Egialias St., 151 25 Maroussi, GreeceCentre for Research and Technology, Hellas (CERTH), 52 Egialias St., 151 25 Maroussi, GreeceCentre for Research and Technology, Hellas (CERTH), 52 Egialias St., 151 25 Maroussi, GreecePublic Power Corporation of Greece (PPC), Department of Mining Engineering and Closure Planning, 104 32 Athens, GreecePublic Power Corporation of Greece (PPC), Department of Mining Engineering and Closure Planning, 104 32 Athens, GreeceCentre for Research and Technology, Hellas (CERTH), 52 Egialias St., 151 25 Maroussi, GreeceCentre for Research and Technology, Hellas (CERTH), 52 Egialias St., 151 25 Maroussi, GreeceGFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Telegrafenberg, 14473 Potsdam, GermanyCentre for Research and Technology, Hellas (CERTH), 52 Egialias St., 151 25 Maroussi, GreecePlanned decommissioning of coal-fired plants in Europe requires innovative technical and economic strategies to support coal regions on their path towards a climate-resilient future. The repurposing of open pit mines into hybrid pumped hydro power storage (HPHS) of excess energy from the electric grid, and renewable sources will contribute to the EU Green Deal, increase the economic value, stabilize the regional job market and contribute to the EU energy supply security. This study aims to present a preliminary phase of a geospatial workflow used to evaluate land suitability by implementing a multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) technique with an advanced geographic information system (GIS) in the context of an interdisciplinary feasibility study on HPHS in the Kardia lignite open pit mine (Western Macedonia, Greece). The introduced geospatial analysis is based on the utilization of the constraints and ranking criteria within the boundaries of the abandoned mine regarding specific topographic and proximity criteria. The applied criteria were selected from the literature, while for their weights, the experts’ judgement was introduced by implementing the analytic hierarchy process (AHP), in the framework of the ATLANTIS research program. According to the results, seven regions were recognized as suitable, with a potential energy storage capacity from 1.09 to 5.16 GWh. Particularly, the present study’s results reveal that 9.27% (212,884 m<sup>2</sup>) of the area had a very low suitability, 15.83% (363,599 m<sup>2</sup>) had a low suitability, 23.99% (550,998 m<sup>2</sup>) had a moderate suitability, 24.99% (573,813 m<sup>2</sup>) had a high suitability, and 25.92% (595,125 m<sup>2</sup>) had a very high suitability for the construction of the upper reservoir. The proposed semi-automatic geospatial workflow introduces an innovative tool that can be applied to open pit mines globally to identify the optimum design for an HPHS system depending on the existing lower reservoir.https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/23/2/593hybrid pumped hydro power storagehydro powerhydro storageGISKardia mineAHP |
| spellingShingle | Pavlos Krassakis Andreas Karavias Evangelia Zygouri Christos Roumpos Georgios Louloudis Konstantina Pyrgaki Nikolaos Koukouzas Thomas Kempka Dimitris Karapanos GIS-Based Assessment of Hybrid Pumped Hydro Storage as a Potential Solution for the Clean Energy Transition: The Case of the Kardia Lignite Mine, Western Greece Sensors hybrid pumped hydro power storage hydro power hydro storage GIS Kardia mine AHP |
| title | GIS-Based Assessment of Hybrid Pumped Hydro Storage as a Potential Solution for the Clean Energy Transition: The Case of the Kardia Lignite Mine, Western Greece |
| title_full | GIS-Based Assessment of Hybrid Pumped Hydro Storage as a Potential Solution for the Clean Energy Transition: The Case of the Kardia Lignite Mine, Western Greece |
| title_fullStr | GIS-Based Assessment of Hybrid Pumped Hydro Storage as a Potential Solution for the Clean Energy Transition: The Case of the Kardia Lignite Mine, Western Greece |
| title_full_unstemmed | GIS-Based Assessment of Hybrid Pumped Hydro Storage as a Potential Solution for the Clean Energy Transition: The Case of the Kardia Lignite Mine, Western Greece |
| title_short | GIS-Based Assessment of Hybrid Pumped Hydro Storage as a Potential Solution for the Clean Energy Transition: The Case of the Kardia Lignite Mine, Western Greece |
| title_sort | gis based assessment of hybrid pumped hydro storage as a potential solution for the clean energy transition the case of the kardia lignite mine western greece |
| topic | hybrid pumped hydro power storage hydro power hydro storage GIS Kardia mine AHP |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/23/2/593 |
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