Revisiting the techno-economic analysis process for building-mounted, grid-connected solar photovoltaic systems: Part one – Review

Sommerfeldt, Nelson; Madani, Hatef

doi:10.1016/j.rser.2016.11.232

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“…3.1.5. Energy Storage Equation (8) represents the power supplied by the energy storage system (P ES t,s ) as the combination of the charging and discharging powers, which are limited by the power capacity of the BESS (P cap ), shown in Equations (9)- (11). The charging and discharging coefficients are binary variables representing whether the BESS is charging or discharging.…”

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Optimal Asset Planning for Prosumers Considering Energy Storage and Photovoltaic (PV) Units: A Stochastic Approach

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In the distribution system, customers have increasingly use renewable energy sources and battery energy storage systems (BESS), transforming traditional loads into active prosumers. Therefore, methodologies are needed to provide prosumers with tools to optimize their investments and increase business opportunities. In this paper, a stochastic mixed integer linear programming (MILP) formulation is proposed to solve for optimal sizes of prosumer assets, considering the use of a BESS and photovoltaic (PV) units. The objective is to minimize the total cost of the system, which is defined as the combination of a solar PV system investment, BESS investment, maintenance costs of assets, and the cost of electricity supplied by the grid. The developed method defines the optimal size of PV units, the power/energy capacities of the BESS, and the optimal value for initial energy stored in the BESS. Both deterministic and stochastic approaches were explored. For each approach, the proposed model was tested for three cases, providing a varying combination of the use of grid power, PV units, and BESS. The optimal values from each case were compared, showing that there is potential to achieve more economic plans for prosumers when PV and BESS technologies are taken into account.

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“…One of the fastest expanding types of alternative energy sources is photovoltaic (PV) power [11]. The technology has advanced immensely over the years with PV generation available for anywhere from single homes to large commercial plants.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Optimal Asset Planning for Prosumers Considering Energy Storage and Photovoltaic (PV) Units: A Stochastic Approach

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“…(Lee et al, 2018) defined a sorting method relying on both the solar irradiation and the economic potential of a roof. And yet, among the criteria that they selected, two economic criteria were the return on investment and the pay-back period, which are very similar criteria in the case of PV systems (Sommerfeldt and Madani, 2017a). This may induce a bias in the methodology as redundancy in the decisional criteria should be avoided in multicriteria decision analysis (Figueira et al, 2005).…”

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“…Cities are complex environments and information about the solar or the economic potential is not sufficient when assessing the suitability of a roof to host a PV system (Wijeratne et al, 2019). Other key aspects must be considered such as, for instance, the presence of superstructure elements on the roof (Desthieux et al, 2018;Groppi et al, 2018;Mah et al, 2018;Walch et al, 2020), structural robustness (Wills et al, 2015), economic feasibility (Lee et al, 2018;Sommerfeldt and Madani, 2017a) or the heritage and aesthetic character of the given building (Florio et al, 2018;Groppi et al, 2018;Probst and Roecker, 2015). Therefore, the sortings that have been proposed are limited as they do not address the multicriteria aspect of the suitability of a roof to host PV systems.…”

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Multicriteria roof sorting for the integration of photovoltaic systems in urban environments

Thebault

Clivillé

Berrah

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Sustainable Cities and Society

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Authors would like to thanks the program INTERREG V Suisse-France for providing financial support to conduct this study in the framework of the project G2 Solar which aims at extending the solar cadaster to the Greater Geneva and intensify energy solar production at this level. We greatly acknowledge R. Giraudon at Urban Solar Energy, and B. Benchenafi at Reservoir Sun, for their helpful discussion and their expertise. We finally thank Manon Turban for her proofreading of the document.

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“…Such regulation is not only motivated by consumer protection but is also desired by utilities and investors to have a stable commercial framework for investments [3] [4] [5]. Political and regulatory frameworks influence market structures, hence guide economic activity and innovation [6] [7] [8] [9]. The current regulatory and technical framework is challenged with the emergence of renewable energy (RE), its specific characteristics and increasing prosumer penetration, e.g.…”

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Economics of Pooling Small Local Electricity Prosumers—Prosumer vs Business as Usual Approach

Kästel¹,

Gilroy-Scott²

2018

EPE

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This paper analyses the economics of pooling small UK based local electricity prosumers with backup access to the National Grid and compares it to the current conventional UK electricity supply model-business as usual (BAU) approach. This is contextualized against the UK energy market framework, prosumer research and changing energy market dynamics. For the economic assessment a three-tiered production/supply and consumption model is developed based on site specific levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) and other cost parameter to operate the model. Modeling results indicated the economic feasibility and advantage of a prosumer approach in a significant number of modeling scenarios. Additionally, a break-even analysis for the two approaches was undertaken to understand the sensitivity of individual input parameters.

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Revisiting the techno-economic analysis process for building-mounted, grid-connected solar photovoltaic systems: Part one – Review

Cited by 42 publications

References 157 publications

Optimal Asset Planning for Prosumers Considering Energy Storage and Photovoltaic (PV) Units: A Stochastic Approach

Optimal Asset Planning for Prosumers Considering Energy Storage and Photovoltaic (PV) Units: A Stochastic Approach

Multicriteria roof sorting for the integration of photovoltaic systems in urban environments

Economics of Pooling Small Local Electricity Prosumers—Prosumer vs Business as Usual Approach

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