Design and analysis of grid-connected sustainable urban residential energy systems
International Journal of Energy Sector Management
ISSN: 1750-6220
Article publication date: 27 September 2021
Issue publication date: 11 May 2022
Abstract
Purpose
Earlier most of the research groups have designed and developed hybrid renewable energy system models with technological, scientific and industrial advancement for the energy systems, but slight attention has been paid towards the grid-connected sustainable urban residential energy systems (SUReS) for metropolitan cities. The current research wishes to design, model and analyze grid-connected energy system for residential applications for sustainable urban residential energy system. The works aims to explore the potential of the augmented energy system for grid-connected energy system.
Design/methodology/approach
The proposed grid-connected SUReS are validated for a sample location at New Delhi (India) with a hybrid optimization model for electric renewable (HOMER) software to define and understand the various load profile. It presents the sensitivity analysis approach to validate the design of the proposed energy system.
Findings
The obtained results reports the key barriers, proposed model and scenarios for sustainable urban energy system development.
Research limitations/implications
Similar approaches can be replicated to design and develop an independent, self-sustainable cleaner and environmental-friendly energy system in the future scenario for the extension of complex grid infrastructures.
Practical implications
It will assist the stakeholder in solving the complex urban sustainability issues raised due to the shortage of energy.
Social implications
It will offer a clean and environment friendly sustainable energy resources with reduced carbon emissions. It will benefit sustainable energy resources with a mix of challenges and opportunities, to suggest an approach for implementation of efficient energy policies to optimize the existing and forthcoming energy systems.
Originality/value
The current research offers a design and model to analyze grid-connected energy system sustainable urban residential applications. It explores the potential of the augmented energy system. The proposed model are validated for a sample location with HOMER simulation software to define and understand various scenarios of the multiple load profile. The work presents the sensitivity analysis approach to validate the proposed energy system.
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Acknowledgements
This work was supported in part by the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Government of India under the Early Career Research Scheme (FILE NO. ECR/2017/000816) for facilitating computational facilities. The author is thankful to HOMER for providing open archive data sets access to renewable energy data. The author is thankful to anonymous reviewers for their fruitful suggestions.
Declaration of interests: The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
Citation
Kumar, D. and Tewary, T. (2022), "Design and analysis of grid-connected sustainable urban residential energy systems", International Journal of Energy Sector Management, Vol. 16 No. 4, pp. 704-727. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJESM-02-2021-0025
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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