Clean Water Using Solar and Wind: Outside the Power Grid (Persian Translation)

Solar photo-voltaic (PV) and wind offer to bring both clean energy and clean water to remote regions and peri-urban areas in the world, outside the conventional electric grids. One out of seven people has no electric power available that would bring light to the home, cook the food, pump to access water and purify or re-use it. Off-grid systems are scalable and can be designed to any size, from household to village and community levels. The renewable energy cost development is remarkable and can make electric power affordable also for the poorest. Renewables promise an end to the era where energy security is closely related to geopolitics. The expenditure is up-front capital cost while “fuel” is free. With renewables, there is no geopolitical pressure where one country has deposits of a fossil fuel while another does not. This book aims to show how clean water and clean energy are reachable for all while contributing to both a better climate and a healthier life. ISBN: 9781789062953 (eBook)

OBJECTIVES AND STRATEGY FOR MANAGING THE CONFIGURATION OF A RURAL MICRO-GRID CONTAINING RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES

A significant disadvantage of rural distribution electric grids of 0.4 kV is the lack of the ability to operate their configuration. This disadvantage leads to a decrease in the reliability of electricity supply and significant damage to rural consumers from interruptions in electricity supply. A promising direction is the introduction of distributed generation based on renewable energy sources (RES), electricity storage devices into the structure of rural electric grids and the construction of microgrids based on them. However, the issues of building rural microgrids have not been worked out today, the search for rational options for their structure is being conducted all over the world, the development of equipment for their construction is underway. Therefore, the purpose of the research presented in the article is to determine the tasks and strategies for operating the configuration of rural microgrids containing renewable energy sources (RES) based on the use of means of partitioning and reserving the electric grid, that is, means of controlling its configuration and means of monitoring the parameters of its operation modes. As a means of partitioning and reserving the electric grid, it is proposed to use multi-contact switching systems installed at the points of branches in the grid and equipped with sensors for the parameters of the grid operating modes. The use of multi-contact switching systems allows you to implement a flexible change in the grid configuration when changing its operating modes. Power supply sources are also equipped with sensors. The data from the sensors is transmitted to the virtual power plant, which monitors the operating modes of the grid and forms commands for controlling its configuration. This allows you to monitor the operating modes of grid sections and power supply sources, identify normal, emergency and post-emergency modes and make the necessary changes to the grid configuration in a timely manner. As a strategy for the operation of an electrical grid containing renewable energy sources and configuration operating tools, a strategy is proposed that assumes the maximum use of the energy generated by renewable sources when the restrictions are met – a given level of reliability of power supply to consumers and the quality of electricity supplied to them

Advanced Adiabatic Compressed Air Energy Storage design and modelling accounting for turbomachinery performance

Energy storage plants are going to become a strategic asset in electric grids. This statement is confirmed looking at the increasing shares of renewables composing the energy portfolio of several nations. Therefore the power demand and production mismatches, caused by the intermittent nature of renewables, must be reconciled. Many energy storage solutions are available but Advanced Adiabatic Compressed Air Energy Storage (AA-CAES) plants have potentials similar to pumped hydro systems (PHS). A physical model was developed in Matlab-Simscape to simulate the dynamics of AA-CAES plants, implementing temperature-dependent air properties, efficiency maps for turbomachinery and realistic power ramps. Furthermore, start-up and shut-down phases and energy consumption during idle periods were accounted for. The model embeds a 1D Fortran code to model the detailed behaviour of a packed-bed TES. The grid-to-grid performance of an AA-CAES plant was determined and the assumptions implemented to take into account real turbomachinery behaviour are presented.

Application of the TEAC software for analysis of Energy Flexible Building Clusters – a case study

Nowadays, natural environment protection and sustainable development became common and necessary issues for all the economic sectors. It is extremely important to focus on all the efforts resulting in the most efficient and sustainable power sources and electric power grid. Typically, the residential districts are connected by electric grids, which with an application of the appropriate technologies might be considered as so-called smart-grids. In the smart-grid neighbourhoods, houses are the consumers, energy supply is performed by the local or/and national power plants, while energy distribution is performed using some monitoring and management systems. Such a residential area can be considered as a Building Cluster, the novel paradigm in the energy and environmental analysis of the built environments. In this article, the exemplary single-family houses neighbourhood is examined, following the Building Cluster paradigm. The analysed area is located in Lodz (Poland), consisting of 202 buildings. The study is performed by means of the home-developed software named TEAC (Tool for Energy Efficiency Analyses of an Energy Cluster). The analysis is focused on the energy, economic and environmental issues of the considered Building Cluster.

Empiricism and collaboration on grid data analytics

This paper discusses the need for data-driven tools to manage modern electric grids, where planning and operational decisions increasingly require empirical data on various time scales. The advancement of such tools will hinge on deploying instrumentation to collect faster and more localized measurements, capitalizing on state-of-the-art software solutions to facilitate big-data workflows, and enabling open exchange of data and information with research collaborators.

ENERGY CHARACTERISTICS OF PHASE REGULATING DEVICE BASED ON “STAR” CIRCUIT

The electric power industry development mean increases the electric grids flexibility through the use of various devices type (FACTS) controlled by means of power electronics and being an element of the Smart Grid. This type of device includes a phaseshifting transformer (PST), which redistributes power flows in the branches of electrical networks. In connection with the relevance of this topic, new technical solutions appear that implement similar functions, which entails the need for a comparative analysis of such developments in order to optimize the energy characteristics of this kind of equipment. The aim of the work is to develop schematic version of the PST made according to the "star" scheme and analyze its operation in typical modes. During the study, the energy characteristics of the device were determined. The possibility of reducing the typical power of the phase-shifting device due to the use of capacitive compensation is analyzed.