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The policy study on the power grid operation strategy of new and renewable energy combined generation system (도서지역의 신재생에너지복합발전 전력계통 운영방안에 관한 정책연구)

  • Kim, Eui Hwan
    • 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2011.05a
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    • pp.109.1-109.1
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    • 2011
  • KEPCO was operating power plants with diesel generators in 49 islands including Baekryeong-Do, and the generation capacity was about 66 MW in 2008. The cost of fuel is increasing by the international oil price inflation and continuous rise of oil price is predicted. For the stabilizing of electric power supply to the separate islands, renewable energy and fuel cell systems were considered. Hydrogen is made using renewable energy such as wind power and solar energy, and then a fuel cell system generates electricity with the stored hydrogen. Though the system efficiency is low, it is treated as the only way to secure the stable electric supply using renewable energy at this present. The analytic hierarchy process was used to select suitable candidate island for the system installation and 5 islands including Ulleung-Do were selected. Economic evaluation for the system composed of a kerosene generator, a wind power, an electrolysis, and a fuel cell system was conducted with levelized generation cost based on present value methode. As the result, the necessity of renewable energy combined generation system and micro grid composition in the candidated islands was confirmed. Henceforth, the development of an integration technology which connects micro grid to the total power grid will be needed.

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Smart Grid-The next Generation Electricity Grid with Power Flow Optimization and High Power Quality

  • Hu, Jiefeng;Zhu, Jianguo;Platt, Glenn
    • Journal of international Conference on Electrical Machines and Systems
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    • v.1 no.4
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    • pp.425-433
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    • 2012
  • As the demand for electric power increases rapidly and the amount of fossil fuels decreases year by year, making use of renewable resources seem very necessary. However, due to the discontinuous nature of renewable resources and the hierarchical topology of existing grids, power quality and grid stability will deteriorate as more and more distributed generations (DGs) are connected to the grids. It is a good idea to combine local utilization, local consumption, energy storage and DGs to form a grid-friendly micro grid, these micro grids can then assembled into an intelligent power system - the smart Grid. It can optimize power flow and integrate power generation and consumption effectively. Most importantly, the power quality and grid stability can be improved greatly. This paper depicts how the smart grid addresses the current issues of a power system. It also figures out the key technologies and expectations of the smart grid.

Determining Appropriate Capacity on Installing Photovoltaic System at Deteriorated Educational Facilities

  • Lhee, Sang Choon;Choi, Young Joon;Choi, Yool
    • KIEAE Journal
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    • v.14 no.3
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    • pp.23-29
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    • 2014
  • With high acknowledgements of environmental conservation and energy saving, many architectural technologies using renewable energy have been recently applied at buildings which take about 20% of total energy consumption. Among renewable energy sources, the photovoltaic is considered as the most highly potential one due to advantages of infiniteness and cleanliness. Also, projects to install renewable energy systems have been continuously performed at deteriorated educational facilities as energy efficient remodeling projects or green school projects by the Korean government. This paper proposes appropriate capacities by school level on installing photovoltaic systems at deteriorated school buildings, based on the balance of annual electricity power demand and supply between buildings and systems. Using the Visual DOE program and Merit program, the appropriate installment capacity of photovoltaic system turned out be 40kWp at elementary school building and 60kWp at middle and high ones. In addition, annual energy use proved to be reduced by 20.2% at elementary school, 26.9% at middle school, and 21.0% at high school by installing photovoltaic systems with the appropriate capacities.

Development of Power Conditioning System for Photovoltaic Power Generation Systems (태양광발전용 3kW급 PCS개발)

  • Min, Byoung-Gwon;Ryu, Seung-Pyo;Jeon, Se-Bong;Lee, Bong-Woo;Kim, Nam-Hae
    • 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2005.06a
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    • pp.123-126
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    • 2005
  • Recently, because of the depletion of fossil fuels and the environmental pollution by using fossil fuels and harmfulness of atomic power plants. the interests concerning new and renewable energy resources are rising increasingly. And of all new and renewable energy sources the PV generation systems are recognized as the most useful and desirable renewable energy source in allowance for installation conditions. In this development, the 3kWp photovoltaic power generation system is realized to verify the performance of the 3kWp PCS developed by Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. (HHI). The photovoltaic array used in this system is composed of 60 modules of 50Wp capacity. The developed system is tested as procedures and items of test regulation recognized by governmen and the experimental results show the excellent electrical characteristics. Now, the 3kWp PCS developed is installed in the PV model house built in HHI plant and is being tested for practical use commercialization.

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Design of Hybrid Type Streetlight for Railway Station with Renewable Energy (신재생에너지를 이용한 철도역사용 복합형 가로등 설계)

  • Yoon, Yong-Ho;Kim, Jae-Moon
    • The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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    • v.65 no.12
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    • pp.2103-2108
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    • 2016
  • Energy saving is as important as developments of green energy and alternative energy. This paper describes design of hybrid type streetlight for railway station with renewable energy as photovoltaic, wind, secondary battery. In designing hybrid type streetlight for railway station, generation energy with renewable energy and reliability is strongly needed to meet the demand of railway station. In order to achieve the high performance of a streetlight, photovoltaic, wind and secondary battery system, PV tracker, monitoring and GUI system with logging function are designed. To verify of performance of hybrid type streetlight for railway station, we have demonstration test to get of generation energy and flow of energy and the results are present in this paper.

Towards More Efficient Energy Use for Green Remediation (녹색정화를 위한 에너지의 효율적 이용)

  • Hwang, Sang-Il
    • Journal of Soil and Groundwater Environment
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    • v.14 no.6
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    • pp.95-100
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    • 2009
  • Strategies incorporating more efficient energy use into remediation of contaminated sites, which are those of important elements in green remediation, are developed and discussed in this work. Firstly, from several case studies of remedial actions in Korea, thermal desorption and/or in-situ method including pump-and-treat were found energy intensive and soil washing less intensive. In order to use energy efficiently and minimize use of fossil fuels during land revitalization process, it is necessary to optimize energy intensive systems, to use low energy remediation systems (such as bioremediation), and to integrate renewable energy sources. Furthermore, economic incentive systems such as subsidy need to be adopted if renewable energy sources are incorporated into remediation of contaminated sites.

Simultaneous Planning of Renewable/ Non-Renewable Distributed Generation Units and Energy Storage Systems in Distribution Networks

  • Jannati, Jamil;Yazdaninejadi, Amin;Talavat, Vahid
    • Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Materials
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.111-118
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    • 2017
  • The increased diversity of different types of energy sources requires moving towards smart distribution networks. This paper proposes a probabilistic DG (distributed generation) units planning model to determine technology type, capacity and location of DG units while simultaneously allocating ESS (energy storage systems) based on pre-determined capacities. This problem is studied in a wind integrated power system considering loads, prices and wind power generation uncertainties. A suitable method for DG unit planning will reduce costs and improve reliability concerns. Objective function is a cost function that minimizes DG investment and operational cost, purchased energy costs from upstream networks, the defined cost to reliability index, energy losses and the investment and degradation costs of ESS. Electrical load is a time variable and the model simulates a typical radial network successfully. The proposed model was solved using the DICOPT solver under GAMS optimization software.

Determining Optimal Installed Capacity and the Interconnected Bus of Renewable Energy Sources Considering the Cost of Energy Not Supplied (정전비용을 고려한 신재생에너지원의 최적 연계 용량 및 연계 위치 결정에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Sung-Yul;Lee, Sung-Hun;Kim, Jin-O
    • The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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    • v.61 no.10
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    • pp.1393-1398
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    • 2012
  • Due to environmental regulation and technical improvements, renewable energy sources (RES) are increasingly penetrated and operated in power systems. Clean energy technologies have become cost-competitive with conventional power systems, and in the near future, the generation cost of RES is expected to approach grid parity. In this situation, it should be considered an extraordinarily important issue to be maximized resulting in utilization of RES as well as to develop technologies for efficiency improvement of RES. Therefore, in this paper, the method for determining an optimal installed capacity and interconnected location of RES is proposed in order to minimize the cost of energy not supplied, which can contribute to improve distribution reliability.

Study on Energy Independence Plan for Sewage Treatment Plant (하수처리시설의 에너지 자립화 방안 연구)

  • Kim, Young-Jun;Chung, Chul-Kwon;Kang, Yong-Tae
    • Proceedings of the SAREK Conference
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    • 2008.11a
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    • pp.15-20
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    • 2008
  • The objectives of this study are to analyze the energy independence plan and to propose a suitable sewage treatment plant in Korea. The total amount of electricity consumption for public sewage treatment plant was estimated as 1,182 GWh in 2007. It was estimated that total 16 sewage treatment plants with renewable energy systems produced electricity of 15.2 GWh per year, which could replaced 0.8% of total electricity used for sewage treatment. It was found that domestic sewage treatment plants with power generation plants by digestion gas were installed in 7 places and produced electricity of 13 GWh per year. It was also found that the power generation plants by digestion gas were the most cost-effective for sewage treatment out of the renewable energy systems based on the benefit-cost analysis.

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Hybrid wind-solar power deployment in India: Green Energy Open Access (GEOA) and Renewable Energy Certificates (REC)

  • Hardik K. Jani;Surendra Singh Kachhwaha;Garlapati Nagababu;Alok Das
    • Advances in Energy Research
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    • v.8 no.4
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    • pp.243-252
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    • 2022
  • The hybrid wind-solar energy concept has a big influence on the spread of wind and solar power projects in India since it combines the benefits of both industries while also providing extra benefits such as resource sharing such as land, infrastructure, and power evacuation systems. Furthermore, while the hybrid policy may reduce certain barriers to the installation of wind and solar energy in India, there are still some issues that must be resolved rapidly in order to ensure a sustainable installation. According to the study's findings, the installation of wind and solar power plants is significantly influenced by energy policy. The wind-solar hybrid energy strategy will also be crucial in the near future for growing the usage of renewable energy sources. Aside from that, the establishment of Green Energy Open Access (GEOA) and the restart of the trading of Renewable Energy Certificates (REC) would promote the quick deployment of standalone and hybrid renewable power projects throughout the nation, enabling it to reach 500 GW of installed non-fossil energy capacity by 2030.