Technical, Economical and Environmental Comparative Analysis of a Microgrid Using Battery and Pumped Hydro Storage for Remote Area Electrification in Southern Algeria

EasyChair Preprint 9034

Abstract

Aim of this research is to analyze the technoeconomic and environmental performance of the hybrid energy
system (HES) to meet the electricity demand of an off-grid community and the dump load in the Indalek village located in the southern of Algeria. Different combinations of HES, such as PV/FC/DG/battery (BESS) and PV/FC/DG/Pumped hydro storage (PHS), are modeled, analyzed and compared using HOMER software. The techno-economic environmental performance analysis has evaluated the net present cost (NPC), cost of energy (COE), excess electricity (EE), fraction of renewable energy (RF) and CO2 emissions of the different
combinations of HES. The simulation results shows that the hybrid energy system with BESS is the best feasibility technoeconomic performance with the least NPC, COE and the higher EE of $438335.21, $0.1423/KWh, 36222 KW/year, respectively. On the contrary, the HES with PHS has the highest fraction of
renewable energy of 87.4% and the most environmentally friendly with 96.43% reduction in CO2 emissions compared to the HES with BESS. Finally, the sensitivity analysis is performed on the hybrid energy system with BESS shows that the improvement of the derating factor with the increase load leads to a lower the COE.

Keyphrases: economical study, environmental analysis, hybrid storage, remote area, technico-economical analysis

@booklet{EasyChair:9034,
  author    = {Bekhti Mohammed Abderahim and Ghomri Leila and Larbi Beklaouz Hadj},
  title     = {Technical, Economical and Environmental Comparative Analysis of a Microgrid Using Battery and Pumped Hydro Storage for Remote Area Electrification in Southern Algeria},
  howpublished = {EasyChair Preprint 9034},
  year      = {EasyChair, 2022}}