Techno-economic analysis of a renewable-based hybrid energy system for utility and transportation facilities in a remote community of Northern Alberta

Priyanka, Tazrin Jahan; Atre, Shivam; Billal, Md Mashum; Arani, Mohammad

doi:10.1016/j.cles.2023.100073

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“…The Siksika Nation, a group of three Indigenous nations in Canada, relies on diesel generators to generate electricity, which has major negative effects on the environment, including global warming, greenhouse gas emissions, air pollution, and water pollution. Climate change will have a significant influence on energy management of this group of Indigenous people of Canada [7,8]. Canada had over 670 megatons of CO2 emissions while per capita emission is 17.5 tons of CO2 year 2021 [9].…”

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Implementing Tri-brid Energy Systems for Renewable Integration in Southern Alberta, Canada

Aftab,

Byrne,

Hazendonk

et al. 2024

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The steep decline in the price of wind and solar photovoltaics provides a possibility to decarbonize electricity deeply and affordably. This study uses HOMER Pro energy modeling tool to model an optimized grid-connected renewable energy system for a community in southern Alberta, Canada. The study's goal is to identify the best renewable energy technology combinations that can provide electricity at the lowest levelized cost of energy (LCOE) and has lesser greenhouse gas emission as compared to the electricity produced by traditional fossil fuel. Gleichen, is a small town in southern Alberta and is near to numerous commercial wind and solar projects given the region’s high quality renewable resources. “Tri-brid” systems consisting of wind turbines, solar photovoltaics, and battery energy storage systems (BESS) are considered and compared based on electricity prices, net present cost, and greenhouse gas emissions savings. This tri-brid system is connected to the grid to sell excess electricity generated or buying electricity when there is less or no availability of solar and wind. The tri-brid energy system has an estimated LCOE of 0.0705 CAD/kWh which is competitive with the price of electricity generated by natural gas and coal which is 0.127 CAD/kWh.

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confidence: 99%