Technical, Financial, and Environmental Effects of Distributed Energy Resources on Multi Carrier Energy Networks

Growing energy demands and greenhouse gas emission have caused some technical, financial, and environmental challenges for electric distribution network companies. Distributed Energy Resources (DERs): Wind Turbine (WT), Energy Storages (ESs), Demand Response (DR), and Combined Heat and Power (CHP) are taken into account as outstanding solutions to this problem. In this paper, technical, financial, and environmental effects of DERs (i.e.,WT, ES, DR, and CHP) are considered on multi carrier energy networks. To install DERs, Energy Hub (EH) approach is utilized in this paper. EH is a node in electrical distribution networks that simplifies integration of different energy networks and DERs to the networks. GAMS software is used to solve the proposed Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP) model. The technical, financial, and environmental effects of the aforementioned DERs are evaluated through different cases. Simulation results demonstrate how the optimal utilization of DERs in the platform of energy hub can effectively address the developed problem in this paper.