Stakeholders’ perspectives on barriers to remote wind–diesel power plants in Canada

Weis, Timothy M.; Ilinca, Adrian; Pinard, Jean-Paul

doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2008.01.004

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“…WDCAS is designed to overcome most of the technical, economical and social barriers that faces the deployment of wind energy in isolated sites [13]. Indeed, implementation costs are minimized and reliability is increased by using the existing diesel generators.…”

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Study and design of a hybrid wind–diesel-compressed air energy storage system for remote areas

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“…In some cases [11][12][13][14][15][16], the use of storage systems allows the overall cost of energy supply to decrease while increasing the wind energy penetration rate (the percentage of wind energy in the total consumption).…”

Section: Conventional Solutions: Wind-diesel Systemsmentioning

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Study and design of a hybrid wind–diesel-compressed air energy storage system for remote areas

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“…WDCAHS is designed to overcome most of the technical, economic and social barriers that face the deployment of wind energy in isolated sites [28]. Indeed, implementation costs are minimized and reliability is increased by using the existing diesel generators.…”

Section: Advantages Of Wind-diesel-compressed Air Hybrid Systemmentioning

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Contribution of the Compressed Air Energy Storage in the Reduction of GHG - Case Study: Application on the Remote Area Power Supply System

Ibrahim¹,

Ilinca²

2012

Air Pollution - A Comprehensive Perspective

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“…Attempts have been made and continue to be made to introduce diesel‐renewable hybrid power plants in remote communities. The vast majority of previous iterations of hybrid power plants have failed because of high capital and maintenance costs that do not adequately offset diesel savings and for which the relatively small remote communities cannot pay . Further developments in renewable energy technology as well as the linking of nearby remote communities on microgrids will dramatically improve the success rate of renewable implementations in the near future.…”

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Canadian remote community power generation: How reformer and fuel cell systems compare with diesel generators

DePippo

Peppley

2019

Int J Energy Res

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Summary More than three quarters of Canadian remote communities rely solely on diesel generators for electricity generation. The diesel dependency of remote communities has inflated local per capita greenhouse gas emissions and resulted in rising and inconsistent electricity prices that have made community viability reliant on government subsidies. As the diesel generators approach the end of their lifespan replacement, technologies must be considered that will help transition Canadian remote communities from diesel to renewables. Replacing diesel generators with steam reformer and solid oxide fuel cell systems would allow for more efficient diesel generation and would benefit the future implementation of renewable power. A model was generated in Honeywell's UniSim Design Suite to simulate the performance of a diesel fed steam reformer and solid oxide fuel cell system. System operating parameters in the model were optimized to minimize the expected payback period. The system model outputs were compared with expected diesel generator performance for a test case remote community. The test community demonstrated that replacing diesel generators with the proposed steam reformer and solid oxide fuel cell system would result in annual net efficiency improvements of 32%. The efficiency improvement could potentially translate to reductions in carbon dioxide equivalents of over 258 kt and 20‐year savings of over $450 million if all diesel‐reliant Canadian remote communities switched to steam reformer and solid oxide fuel cell systems. In addition to immediate environmental and economic savings, the improved low load performance of the reformer and fuel cell system would allow for the future integration of renewable energy to create highly efficient diesel‐renewable hybrid power plants.

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Stakeholders’ perspectives on barriers to remote wind–diesel power plants in Canada

Cited by 36 publications

References 2 publications

Study and design of a hybrid wind–diesel-compressed air energy storage system for remote areas

Study and design of a hybrid wind–diesel-compressed air energy storage system for remote areas

Contribution of the Compressed Air Energy Storage in the Reduction of GHG - Case Study: Application on the Remote Area Power Supply System

Canadian remote community power generation: How reformer and fuel cell systems compare with diesel generators

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