Electrification Using a Hybrid Microgrid System for Mutate Masisi Community-A Demand Side Response

Madziga, Miriam; Rahil, Abdulla

doi:10.4172/2161-0525.1000590

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“…Although the rural areas of South Africa had experienced the largest improvement in access to electricity since the democratic rule, access for the rural population continues to lag behind overall access, by almost 15 percentage points in South Africa [22]. The consistent supply of electricity is needed to facilitate the daily basic lifestyle such as pumping water for drinking and cooking, agricultural uses, lighting and mobile Phone Charging [23].…”

Section: B Rural Electrification and Social Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Development of a Smart Monitoring and Evaluation Framework for Hybrid Renewable Mini-grids

Ravanbach¹,

Kühnel²,

Hanke³

et al. 2020

2020 Fifteenth International Conference on Ecological Vehicles and Renewable Energies (EVER)

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Hybrid renewable mini-grids have emerged as a viable solution for providing reliable, environmentally friendly electricity to remote communities. An affordable and grid-quality supply of energy can open new possibilities for socioeconomic progress. As part of a joint project between South Africa's Eastern Cape province and Germany's state of Lower Saxony a Photovoltaic (PV) hybrid mini-grid is developed in the municipality of Upper Blinkwater in Eastern Cape for a rural community of 70 households with 90% living off of social grants and no access to the main national grid. The aim of this work is to develop a smart Monitoring and Evaluation Framework (MEF) for hybrid renewable mini-grids by integrating cutting-edge technologies in a scalable platform of replicable solutions towards connecting the mini-grid with diverse stakeholders with enhanced observability of both generation and consumption profiles. The MEF provides the opportunity to streamline the flow of real-time energy data (generation, consumption, and storage) from the system to generate accurate and high-resolution datadriven load profiles for rural households. Simultaneously, the interrelation between energy access and social development will be studied and analyzed.

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Section: B Rural Electrification and Social Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%