First Approach to a Holistic Tool for Assessing RES Investment Feasibility

Flores-Arias, J.M.; Ciabattoni, Lucio; Monteriù, Andrea; Bellido-Outeiriño, F.J.; Escribano, Antonio; García, Emilio José

doi:10.3390/su10041153

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“…The study found that the benefits that can be achieved by including RES into the local energy mix can vary depending on deployed energy sources. Hence, the local power grid mix influences the feasibility and acceptability of renewables integration for a certain location, with public administrations playing a relevant role in fostering renewables through incentives such as tax credits or grants [100].…”

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RES Implementation in Urban Areas: An Updated Overview

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Schenone

2020

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In the past, national energy planning guided the development of a central program for infrastructure investment over a defined time period. However, in the current geopolitical context, environmental damage, fossil fuel depletion, and territorial imbalance caused by the centralised energy model are all factors that require a change of energy structure, establishing actions to invest in energy diversification, and solid commitment to local renewable energies. This also implies an enhancement of the role played by local bodies, and particularly by municipalities, in achieving the targets of the Kyoto Protocol and now of the Paris Agreement, because renewable sources need to be studied, applied, and exploited at the local scale. Within this framework, this paper is organized as an overview on the promotion and implementation of the major RES technologies in the deployment of the new energy paradigm at the urban scale, taking into account multiple targets. A survey of existing literature underlines how the RES topic is mostly approached as a problem of energy supply and implementation of technology, but actual sustainability in terms of a social development process and improvement of quality of life by residents is often neglected. Then, this overview stimulated the authors to highlight three main critical issues and gaps and support the need of an all-encompassing approach as a final recommendation for a general RES urban planning advancement.

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RES Implementation in Urban Areas: An Updated Overview

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Schenone

2020

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“…Meanwhile, all over the globe, almost all countries set up very ambitious goals related to increase the share of RES within their energy consumption mix [2,3]. At a smaller scale than a country, many authors approached isolated grids [4] or small island states [5]. In parallel, many approaches and informatic tools were imagined and realized: for assessing RES [6], for the evaluation of the optimal RES share [7], strategies for increasing the sustainability of existing objectives [8], or modern metaheuristic algorithms to determine optimal allocation of hybrid RES system [9].…”

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Small Hydropower Plant for Sustainable Electricity from RES Mix

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In the context of the need for an increasing share of renewables in electricity mixes, the paper presents the existing RES mix, PV and wind, for partially covering the electricity consumption of a research institute, ICSTM, and proposes a solution for completion with a third form of RES, a small hydropower plant. Moreover, it is envisaged to include the proposed small hydropower plant as a new real-scale laboratory attached to ICSTM. The method includes the presentation of an existing proposal for increasing installed capacity in new PV panels and propose to install an SHPP to a weir situated a few hundred meters from the institute. The hydropower potential for two possible arrangements is assessed and some types of turbines suitable for this location are presented. The main results demonstrate that building an SHPP is a better solution for completion of PV and wind as source of electricity for ICSTM. The main conclusion of the paper is that by installing new RES capacities, ICSTM can build a real-scale laboratory for new technologies, at the same time fully covering its own electricity consumption and even supplying a green electricity mix into the national power system.

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First Approach to a Holistic Tool for Assessing RES Investment Feasibility

Cited by 2 publications

References 17 publications

RES Implementation in Urban Areas: An Updated Overview

RES Implementation in Urban Areas: An Updated Overview

Small Hydropower Plant for Sustainable Electricity from RES Mix

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