Reliability, economic and environmental analysis of a microgrid system in the presence of renewable energy resources

The application of renewable energy resources in a power system has received significant attention owing to the environmental impacts and fluctuations of fossil fuel prices. Consequently, renewable energy resources have become important sources to generate power at the commercial level due to their various benefits, coupled with the government incentives and public supports. This research work is focused on the evaluation of the reliability, economic and environmental benefits of renewable energy resources in a microgrid system. The lifecycle analysis of a microgrid system that consists of the photovoltaic, wind turbine generator, electric storage system and diesel generator is implemented in this study to test their commercial prospects in rural communities that have no access to electricity due to economic and technical constraints. The objective of this research work is to minimize the cost of energy, lifecycle cost, the annual cost of load loss and lifecycle greenhouse gas emission cost as well as to improve the overall benefit of green technologies in the proposed microgrid system. This objective is achieved by utilizing the basic probability concept to obtain the reliability performance indicators such as expected energy not served, loss of load expectation and loss of load probability, in addition to utilizing an fmincon optimization tool in the MATLAB environment to investigate the environmental and economic effects of renewable energy resources in a power system. The suitability of the model is tested on six case studies by using the same load profile, wind speed and irradiation of the site and diesel generator power capacity. The market factors such as interest rate and price of diesel fuel as well as forced outage rate, annual peak load variation and distributed generation penetration level are utilized to study their impacts on the operation of a microgrid system. The results obtained in this study demonstrate the optimal feasibility of renewable energy resources in a microgrid system. This indicates that it offers a significant reduction in the values of lifecycle cost, cost of energy, greenhouse gas emission cost and the annual cost of load loss when compared with case study 1. This research work shows that the utilization of green technologies in a microgrid system optimizes the reliability, cost savings, lifecycle cost and environmental impact. The technique adopted in the study can serve as a reference for rural electrification projects and solve socioeconomic problems that are associated with power outages.

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