Autonomous hydrogen-based solar-powered energy system for rural electrification in Balochistan, Pakistan: An energy-economic feasibility analysis

Khan, Tabreiz Ahmad; Waseem, Muhammad; Tahir, Mustafa; Liu, Shengyuan; Yu, Miao

doi:10.1016/j.enconman.2022.116284

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“…In this study, techno-economic optimization was conducted with a focus on minimizing the net present cost (NPC) across all system designs. Each design was individually simulated and optimized using HOMER Pro software, chosen for its widespread recognition and proven utility in renewable energy system optimization, as endorsed by various studies [29][30][31]. By optimizing and analyzing all design configurations, this study aims to identify the most optimal design with minimum NPC that can fulfill the load requirements without any unmet electrical and hydrogen load.…”

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Advanced Levelized Cost Evaluation Method for Electric Vehicle Stations Concurrently Producing Electricity and Hydrogen

Tahir,

Hu,

Zhu

2024

Energies

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This study develops a new method to evaluate the economic viability of co-generation electric vehicle stations that concurrently generate electricity and hydrogen for charging battery electric vehicles and refueling hydrogen vehicles. The approach uniquely differentiates the costs associated with various energy outputs in co-generation stations and includes often-overlooked peripheral devices critical for accurate evaluation of the levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) and hydrogen (LCOH). The method was tested across three design configurations: two featuring single storage options (battery and fuel cell, respectively) and a third using hybrid storage employing both. Each configuration was modeled, simulated, and optimized using HOMER Pro 3.14.2 to determine the most optimal sizing solution. Then, based on the optimal sizing of each design, LCOE and LCOH were evaluated using the proposed method in this study. The analysis revealed that excluding often-overlooked peripheral devices could lead to a 27.7% error in LCOH evaluation, while the impact on LCOE was less than 1%. Among different configurations, the design with hybrid storage proved economically superior, achieving a total levelized cost of energy (TLCOE) for the entire system of USD 0.113/kWh, with the LCOE at USD 0.025/kWh and LCOH at USD 0.088/kWh (or USD 3.46/kg). Comparative analysis with state-of-the-art studies confirmed the accuracy of the proposed method. This study provides a more precise and holistic approach that can be leveraged for the feasibility analysis of electric vehicle stations globally, enhancing strategic decision-making in sustainable energy planning.

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“…The following supporting information can be downloaded at: https:// www.mdpi.com/article/10.3390/en17112682/s1, Table S1: Specifics of system components; Table S2: Specifics of peripheral components [8,31,33,51,53,54].…”

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Advanced Levelized Cost Evaluation Method for Electric Vehicle Stations Concurrently Producing Electricity and Hydrogen

Tahir,

Hu,

Zhu

2024

Energies

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“…The terms closest to evaluation in this subset are "successful implementation" (n: 14), "effective policy" (n: 13), "policy lesson(s)" (n: 7). However, successful implementation or effective policy have been generally used to refer to technical implementation (Kirchhoff et al, 2016) or to make a case for a specific policy recommendation (Landi et al, 2013;Khan et al, 2022) rather than to an empirical evaluation of policy.…”

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Brown-out of policy ideas? A bibliometric review and computational text analysis of research on energy access

Goyal,

Howlett

2023

Front. Sustain. Energy Policy

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IntroductionThe target of universal access to affordable, reliable, and modern energy services—key for individual, social, and economic well-being—is unlikely to be achieved by 2030 based on the current trend. Public policy will likely need to play a key role in accelerating progress in this regard. Although perspectives from the field of policy studies can support this effort, to what extent they have been employed in the literature on energy access remains unclear.MethodsThis study analyzed nearly 7,500 publications on energy access through a combination of bibliometric review and computational text analysis of their titles and abstracts to examine whether and how they have engaged with public policy perspectives, specifically, policy process research, policy design studies, and the literature on policy evaluation.ResultsWe discovered 27 themes in the literature on energy access, but public policy was not among them. Subsequently, we identified 23 themes in a new analysis of the 1,751 publications in our original dataset, mentioning “policy” in their title or abstract. However, few of them engaged with public policy, and even those that did comprised a rather small share of the literature. Finally, we extracted phrases pertaining to public policy in this reduced dataset, but found limited mention of terms related to the policy process, policy design, or policy evaluation.DiscussionWhile to some extent this might reflect the multidisciplinary nature of the research on energy access, a manual review of the abstracts of select publications corroborated this finding. Also, it shed light on how the literature has engaged with public policy and helped identify opportunities for broadening and deepening policy relevant research on energy access. We conclude that, despite their relevance to energy access, public policy perspectives have infrequently and unevenly informed existing research on the topic, and call on scholars in both communities to address this gap in the future.

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“…Te reliabilities of these systems have been reported in the literature. Tus, Enock Mulenga et al [8], Kumar et al [9], and Khan et al [10] evaluated the technoeconomic analysis of hybrid power systems such as PV-Diesel, PV-Biomass, and PV-Hydrogen for the rural electrifcation plan. Other studies [11][12][13][14] focused on optimization techniques for the hybrid power system components sizing.…”

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A Bottom-Up Approach to PV System Design for Rural Locality Electrification: A Case Study in Burkina Faso

Bonkoungou

Tassembédo

Zongo

et al. 2023

Journal of Renewable Energy

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This work evaluates the performance of optimal hybrid PV/battery and PV/diesel generator renewable energy systems for a remote village in Burkina Faso. Based on socioeconomic data and the household sample survey, a technoeconomic simulation and optimization model of electrical loading are presented. Ant colony optimization (ACO) and the loss of power supply probability (LPSP) algorithms were used for the search of the optimal hybrid power system. For the selected village location, the results have shown that the hybrid PV/battery system represents the best renewable energy solution due to abundant solar irradiation and carbon emission free compared to the conventional diesel generator (DG) or PV/DG system. To reach the estimated load power demand of 2150 kWh for the studied location, optimized PV/battery configuration sizing required 650 PV modules of 250 W and 715 batteries of 300 Ah. The economical evaluation reveals a cost investment of about 1,293 025.7 USD for a lifetime of 25 years in comparison of that of PV/DG and DG systems, which are 1,088 701.9 USD and 1,682 850.6 USD, respectively. However, environmental and atmospheric pollution is minimized with a saving of more than 17943 tons of CO2. Therefore, the production of electricity from the PV/battery system leads to better competitiveness reliability for a socioeconomic development of studied remote villages.

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Autonomous hydrogen-based solar-powered energy system for rural electrification in Balochistan, Pakistan: An energy-economic feasibility analysis

Cited by 28 publications

References 83 publications

Advanced Levelized Cost Evaluation Method for Electric Vehicle Stations Concurrently Producing Electricity and Hydrogen

Advanced Levelized Cost Evaluation Method for Electric Vehicle Stations Concurrently Producing Electricity and Hydrogen

Brown-out of policy ideas? A bibliometric review and computational text analysis of research on energy access

A Bottom-Up Approach to PV System Design for Rural Locality Electrification: A Case Study in Burkina Faso

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