Sizing and Management of an Energy System for a Metropolitan Station with Storage and Related District Energy Community

Mircea Stefan Simoiu, Ioana Fagarasan, Stephane Ploix and Vasile Calofir
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Mircea Stefan Simoiu: Laboratory G-SCOP, University Grenoble Alpes, 38000 Grenoble, France
Ioana Fagarasan: Department of Automatic Control and Industrial Informatics, University Politehnica of Bucharest, RO-060042 Bucharest, Romania
Stephane Ploix: Laboratory G-SCOP, University Grenoble Alpes, 38000 Grenoble, France
Vasile Calofir: Department of Automatic Control and Industrial Informatics, University Politehnica of Bucharest, RO-060042 Bucharest, Romania

Energies, 2021, vol. 14, issue 18, 1-22

Abstract: Future renewable energy communities will reshape the paradigm in which we design and control efficient power systems at the district level. In this manner, the focus will be fundamentally shifted towards sustainable related concepts such as self-consumption, self-sufficiency and net energy exchanged with the grid. In this context, the paper presents a novel approach for optimally designing and controlling the photovoltaic plant and energy storage systems for a metro station in order to increase collective self-consumption and self-sufficiency at the district level. The methodology considers a community of several households connected to a subway station and focuses on the interaction between energy sources and consumers. Furthermore, the optimal solution is determined by using a Mixed Integer Linear Programming Approach, and the impact of different configurations on the overall district benefit is investigated by using several simulation scenarios. The work presents a detailed case study to underline the benefits and flexibility offered by the energy storage system in comparison with a scenario involving only a photovoltaic plant.

Keywords: energy community; optimal sizing; energy management; optimal control (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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