An Environmentally-Friendly Tourist Village in Egypt Based on a Hybrid Renewable Energy System––Part One: What Is the Optimum City?

Fahd Diab, Hai Lan, Lijun Zhang and Salwa Ali
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Fahd Diab: College of Automation, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin 150001, China
Hai Lan: College of Automation, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin 150001, China
Lijun Zhang: College of Automation, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin 150001, China
Salwa Ali: Electrical Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Assiut University, Assiut 71516, Egypt

Energies, 2015, vol. 8, issue 7, 1-19

Abstract: The main objective of this work is to select the optimum city from five touristic Egyptian cities (Luxor, Giza, Alexandria, Qena and Aswan) to establish an environmentally-friendly tourist village. The selection of the city, according to the economic cost (cost of energy (COE), net present cost (NPC)) and the amount of greenhouse gases (GHG) emitted, is carried out with respect to four cases, based on the effects of ambient temperature and applying GHG emission penalties. According to the simulation results, using the well-known Homer software, Alexandria is the economic city for hybrid photovoltaics (PV)/wind/diesel/battery and wind/diesel/battery systems, while Aswan is the most economic city for a hybrid PV/diesel/battery system. However, for a diesel/battery system there is no significant economic difference between the cities in the study. On the other hand, according to the amount of GHG emitted from a hybrid PV/wind/diesel/battery system, Qena is the optimum city if the effects of ambient temperature are considered. However, if the GHG emission penalties are applied, Aswan will be the optimum city. Furthermore, Alexandria is the optimum city if the effects of ambient temperature are considered and the GHG emission penalties are applied. Additionally, the effects of ambient temperature and applying GHG emission penalties are studied on hybrid PV/diesel/battery, wind/diesel/battery and diesel/battery systems in this study.

Keywords: an environmentally-friendly tourist village; the effects of ambient temperature; GHG emission penalties; cost of energy (COE); net present cost (NPC) (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: 2015
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