Feasibility analysis of stand-alone renewable energy supply options for a large hotel

Dalton, Gordon; Lockington, David; Baldock, Tom E.

doi:10.1016/j.renene.2007.09.014

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“…Then, it determines the total cost of the project (net present cost). Net present cost which includes capital cost, replacement costs, operation and maintenance costs, fuel costs and salvage cost is calculated using (Dalton et al, 2009)…”

Section: Cost Optimizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Optimal Planning and Design of an Environmentally Friendly Hybrid Energy System for Rural Electrification in Iraq

Aziz¹,

Khudhier²

2017

American Journal of Applied Sciences

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Current power systems create environmental effects because of the using of fossil fuels, specially coal, since CO 2 is released to the atmosphere. Contrary to conventional energy sources, renewable energy sources produce a clean energy which is in general free of pollution, environmentally sustainable and technologically efficient. There is an increased interest in solar energy that can generate electricity with no greenhouse gas emissions. Photovoltaic systems are used to convert the sunlight into electricity. The goal of this research is to design an optimum off-grid photovoltaic/diesel hybrid energy system for a remote hamlet in Al-Kuwayr region north of Iraq. HOMER software is used to implement the techno-economic and environmental feasibility study of the proposed system. It simulates all feasible system which fulfill the load of the chosen sites under specific conditions of the available renewable resources. The analysis of the optimum hybrid energy system is presented to estimate the standalone electrification and compare it with grid expansion. The simulation results show that the optimum hybrid power system consists of 25&50 kW diesel generators, 60 kW photovoltaic arrays and 40 kW converter with no batteries. The power system is capable of providing up to 64 kW peak load. Furthermore, the off-grid photovoltaic/diesel system is found to be more frugal than grid expansion.

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Section: Cost Optimizationmentioning

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“…The amount of Net Present Cost is determined by taking into account the Salvage Costs (SC) which are occur at the end of the lifetime of the project lifetime and is written as (Dalton et al, 2009):…”

Section: Cost Optimizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Optimal Planning and Design of an Environmentally Friendly Hybrid Energy System for Rural Electrification in Iraq

Aziz¹,

Khudhier²

2017

American Journal of Applied Sciences

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“…NPC is the main economic output and ranked all systems accordingly. NPC can be represented [24][25] by Equation 10:…”

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Estimation of Energy Storage and Its Feasibility Analysis

Arif¹,

Oo²,

Ali³

2013

Energy Storage - Technologies and Applications

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“…A number of studies have examined the economics of microgeneration in various locations, such as those by Upson [4] and Dalton et al [5]. In addition, social and regulatory issues have been explored in [6,7].…”

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A computational tool for evaluating the economics of solar and wind microgeneration of electricity

Kelleher

Ringwood

2009

Energy

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a b s t r a c tThis paper presents a method, implemented as a freely available computer programme, which is used to estimate the economics of renewable microgeneration of electricity from wind and solar energy sources. A variety of commercial small wind turbines and photovoltaic (PV) panels are considered and combined with raw energy data gathered from a variety of locations. Both residential and holiday home user profiles are available and options are selectable concerning feed-in tariffs (if available), government incentive schemes and the cost of capital borrowing. The configuration of the generation setup, which can consist of wind, PV and combination of wind/PV, is fully selectable by the user, with a range of appropriate default data provided. A numerical example, based on Irish data, is presented, which suggests that payback periods for solar and wind microgeneration systems can vary greatly (2.5-500 years), depending on the location, installation and economic variables.

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Feasibility analysis of stand-alone renewable energy supply options for a large hotel

Cited by 251 publications

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Optimal Planning and Design of an Environmentally Friendly Hybrid Energy System for Rural Electrification in Iraq

Optimal Planning and Design of an Environmentally Friendly Hybrid Energy System for Rural Electrification in Iraq

Estimation of Energy Storage and Its Feasibility Analysis

A computational tool for evaluating the economics of solar and wind microgeneration of electricity

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