scholarly journals Techno-Economic Feasibility of Hybrid Solar Photovoltaic and Battery Energy Storage Power System for a Mobile Cellular Base Station in Soshanguve, South Africa

Energies ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 1572 ◽  
Author(s):  
Banjo Aderemi ◽  
S. Chowdhury ◽  
Thomas Olwal ◽  
Adnan Abu-Mahfouz
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Energy Storage ◽  
Power System ◽  
Base Station ◽  
Economic Feasibility ◽  
Solar Photovoltaic ◽  
Battery Energy Storage ◽  
Mobile Cellular ◽  
Battery Energy

scholarly journals Techno-Economic Feasibility of Hybrid Solar Photovoltaic and Battery Energy Storage Power System for a Soshanguve Mobile Cellular Base Station in South Africa

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Banjo A. Aderemi ◽  
SP Daniel Chowdhury ◽  
Thomas O. Olwal ◽  
Adnan M. Abu-Mahfouz
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Solar Radiation ◽  
Power System ◽  
Base Station ◽  
Base Stations ◽  
Solar Photovoltaic ◽  
Solar Pv ◽  
Mobile Cellular ◽  
The City ◽  
Station Site

Over the years, sustainability, impact on the environment, as well as the operation expenditure have been a major concern to the deployment of mobile cellular base stations worldwide. This is because the mobile cellular base stations are known to consume a high percentage of power within the mobile cellular network. Such energy consumption contributes to the emission of Greenhouse Gases (GHG) through the use of conventional diesel generating a set. As a result, the mobile cellular operators are faced with the dilemma of minimising the power consumption, GHG emission, and the operation cost, while improving the Quality of Service of the networks. In attempting to find a solution, this study presents the feasibility and simulation of a solar photovoltaic (PV) with battery hybrid power system (HPS) as a predominant source of power for a specific mobile cellular base station site situated in Soshanguve area of the city of Pretoria, South Africa. It also presents the technical development, showed the environmental advantage and cost benefits of using a solar PV-battery HPS to power a base station site of a 24 hrs daily load of 241.10 kWh/d and the peak load of 20.31 kW as compared to using the HPS of solar PV-diesel generating set-battery. The solar resource pattern for the city of Pretoria was collected from The National Aeronautics and Space Administration and modelled statistically. Thus, the statistical modelling done using solar radiation resource exposure characteristic patterns of Pretoria, South Africa, revealed an average annual daily solar radiation of 5.4645 Wh/m2/d and 0.605 clearness index. The simulation and the design were done using the Hybrid Optimization Model for Electric Renewables and Matlab/Simulink software. The simulation finding shows that the HPS of solar PV-battery combination has about 59.62 % saving on Net Present Cost, Levelized Cost of Energy, and 80.87% saving on Operating cost as against conventional BS powered with Gen Set-Battery.

scholarly journals Techno-Economic Feasibility of Hybrid Solar Photovoltaic and Battery Energy Storage Power System for a Soshanguve Mobile Cellular Base Station in South Africa

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Banjo Ayoade Aderemi ◽  
SP Daniel Chowdhury ◽  
Thomas O. Olwal ◽  
Adnan M. Abu-Mahfouz
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Solar Radiation ◽  
Power System ◽  
Base Station ◽  
Base Stations ◽  
Solar Photovoltaic ◽  
Solar Pv ◽  
Mobile Cellular ◽  
The City ◽  
Station Site

Over the years, sustainability, impact on the environment, as well as the operation expenditure have been a major concern to the deployment of mobile cellular base stations worldwide. This is because the mobile cellular base stations are known to consume a high percentage of power within the mobile cellular network. Such energy consumption contributes to the emission of Greenhouse Gases (GHG) through the use of conventional diesel generating a set. As a result, the mobile cellular operators are faced with the dilemma of minimising the power consumption, GHG emission, and the operation cost, while improving the Quality of Service of the networks. In attempting to find a solution, this study presents the feasibility and simulation of a solar photovoltaic (PV) with battery hybrid power system (HPS) as a predominant source of power for a specific mobile cellular base station site situated in Soshanguve area of the city of Pretoria, South Africa. It also presents the technical development, showed the environmental advantage and cost benefits of using a solar PV-battery HPS to power a base station site of a 24 hrs daily load of 241.10 kWh/d and the peak load of 20.31 kW as compared to using the HPS of solar PV-diesel generating set-battery. The solar resource pattern for the city of Pretoria was collected from The National Aeronautics and Space Administration and modelled statistically. Thus, the statistical modelling done using solar radiation resource exposure characteristic patterns of Pretoria, South Africa, revealed an average annual daily solar radiation of 5.4645 Wh/m2/d and 0.605 clearness index. The simulation and the design were done using the Hybrid Optimization Model for Electric Renewables and Matlab/Simulink software. The simulation finding shows that the HPS of solar PV-battery combination has about 59.62 % saving on Net Present Cost, Levelized Cost of Energy, and 80.87% saving on Operating cost as against conventional BS powered with Gen Set-Battery.

scholarly journals A Coordinated Control of Offshore Wind Power and BESS to Provide Power System Flexibility

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (15) ◽  
pp. 4650
Author(s):  
Martha N. Acosta ◽  
Francisco Gonzalez-Longatt ◽  
Juan Manuel Roldan-Fernandez ◽  
Manuel Burgos-Payan
Keyword(s):  
Energy Storage ◽  
Power System ◽  
Wind Power ◽  
Single Layer ◽  
Coordinated Control ◽  
Test System ◽  
Power Converter ◽  
Control Logic ◽  
Battery Energy Storage ◽  
Battery Energy

The massive integration of variable renewable energy (VRE) in modern power systems is imposing several challenges; one of them is the increased need for balancing services. Coping with the high variability of the future generation mix with incredible high shares of VER, the power system requires developing and enabling sources of flexibility. This paper proposes and demonstrates a single layer control system for coordinating the steady-state operation of battery energy storage system (BESS) and wind power plants via multi-terminal high voltage direct current (HVDC). The proposed coordinated controller is a single layer controller on the top of the power converter-based technologies. Specifically, the coordinated controller uses the capabilities of the distributed battery energy storage systems (BESS) to store electricity when a logic function is fulfilled. The proposed approach has been implemented considering a control logic based on the power flow in the DC undersea cables and coordinated to charging distributed-BESS assets. The implemented coordinated controller has been tested using numerical simulations in a modified version of the classical IEEE 14-bus test system, including tree-HVDC converter stations. A 24-h (1-min resolution) quasi-dynamic simulation was used to demonstrate the suitability of the proposed coordinated control. The controller demonstrated the capacity of fulfilling the defined control logic. Finally, the instantaneous flexibility power was calculated, demonstrating the suitability of the proposed coordinated controller to provide flexibility and decreased requirements for balancing power.

scholarly journals Reduction of Power Imbalances Using Battery Energy Storage System in a Bulk Power System with Extremely Large Photovoltaics Interactions

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 522
Author(s):  
Rajitha Udawalpola ◽  
Taisuke Masuta ◽  
Taisei Yoshioka ◽  
Kohei Takahashi ◽  
Hideaki Ohtake
Keyword(s):  
Energy Storage ◽  
Power System ◽  
Solar Irradiance ◽  
Storage System ◽  
Energy Storage System ◽  
Mixed Integer ◽  
Battery Energy Storage System ◽  
Large Power ◽  
Battery Energy Storage ◽  
Battery Energy

Power imbalances such as power shortfalls and photovoltaic (PV) curtailments have become a major problem in conventional power systems due to the introduction of renewable energy sources. There can be large power shortfalls and PV curtailments because of PV forecasting errors. These imbalances might increase when installed PV capacity increases. This study proposes a new scheduling method to reduce power shortfalls and PV curtailments in a PV integrated large power system with a battery energy storage system (BESS). The model of the Kanto area, which is about 30% of Japan’s power usage with 60 GW grid capacity, is used in simulations. The effect of large PV power integration of 50 GW and 100 GW together with large BESS capacity of 100 GWh and 200 GWh has been studied. Mixed integer linear programming technique is used to calculate generator unit commitment and BESS charging and discharging schedules. The simulation results are shown for two months with high and low solar irradiance, which include days with large PV over forecast and under forecast errors. The results reveal that the proposed method eliminates power shortfalls by 100% with the BESS and reduce the PV curtailments by 69.5% and 95.2% for the months with high and low solar irradiance, respectively, when 200 GWh BESS and 100 GW PV power generation are installed.

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