Analysis of Stand-Alone Photovoltaic—Marine Current Hybrid System and the Influence on Daily and Seasonal Energy Storage

Jorge Olmedo-González, Guadalupe Ramos-Sánchez, Erika Paola Garduño-Ruiz and Rosa de Guadalupe González-Huerta
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Jorge Olmedo-González: Electrochemistry Laboratory, Instituto Politécnico Nacional-ESIQIE, UPALM, Av. Instituto Politécnico Nacional S/N, Mexico City 07738, Mexico
Guadalupe Ramos-Sánchez: Chemistry Department, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa, Av. San Rafael Atlixco 186, Mexico City 09340, Mexico
Erika Paola Garduño-Ruiz: Instituto de Ingeniería, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad Universitaria, Building 17, Circuito Exterior S/N, Coyoacán, Mexico City 04510, Mexico
Rosa de Guadalupe González-Huerta: Electrochemistry Laboratory, Instituto Politécnico Nacional-ESIQIE, UPALM, Av. Instituto Politécnico Nacional S/N, Mexico City 07738, Mexico

Energies, 2022, vol. 15, issue 2, 1-21

Abstract: Stand-alone systems in remote regions require the utilization of renewable resources; however, their natural intermittence requires the implementation of energy-storage systems that allow a continuous power supply. More than one renewable source is usually available at the same site. Thus, the choice of a hybrid system seems viable. It is relevant to study hybrid systems as they could reduce energy storage; however, sizing the hybrid system might have several implications, not only for the available daily energy, but also for the required daily energy storage and surplus seasonal energy. In this work, we present a case study of a stand-alone, conventional household powered by photovoltaic and marine-current-energy systems in Cozumel, Mexico. The analysis of different hybridization degrees serves as a guidance tool to decide whether hybrid systems are required for a specific situation; in contrast to previous approaches, where ideal consumption and generation profiles have been utilized, yearlong profiles were utilized here. The renewable potential data were obtained on site at an hourly resolution; requirements such as size of and cycles in the daily and seasonal energy storage were analyzed according to the degree of participation or hybridization of the proposed renewable systems through an algorithm that evaluates power generation and daily consumption throughout the year. A further analysis indicated that marine-current-energy implementation reduces the size of the daily energy-storage system by 79% in comparison to the use of only a photovoltaic system due to the similarity between the energy-demand profile and the marine-current-energy production profile. The results indicate that a greater participation of marine currents can help decrease daily storage while increasing seasonal storage by 16% compared to using only solar energy. On the other hand, hybridization enabled a reduction in the number of daily charge and discharge cycles at 0.2 hybridization degrees. It also allowed us to reduce the seasonal energy storage by 38% at 0.6 hybridization degrees with respect to only using energy from marine currents. Afterwards, energy-storage technologies were evaluated using the TOPSIS Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis to validate the best-suited technology for the energy-storage system. The evaluation considered the characteristics of the technology and the periods of energy storage. In this work, hybrid storage systems were mandatory since, for daily storage, lithium-ion batteries are better suited, while for seasonal storage, hydrogen-producing systems are more suitable to manage the amount of energy and the storage duration due to the high seasonal renewable-energy variations.

Keywords: renewable-energy hybrid system; marine-current system; solar PV system; energy-storage technology; multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA); battery–hydrogen energy-storage system (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: 2022
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