TY - JOUR
T1 - First approach to a holistic tool for assessing RES investment feasibility
AU - Flores-Arias, José María
AU - Ciabattoni, Lucio
AU - Monteriù, Andrea
AU - Bellido-Outeiriño, Francisco José
AU - Escribano, Antonio
AU - Palacios-Garcia, Emilio José
PY - 2018/4
Y1 - 2018/4
N2 - Combining availability, viability, sustainability, technical options, and environmental impact in an energy-planning project is a difficult job itself for the today’s engineers. This becomes harder if the potential investors also need to be persuaded. Moreover, the problem increases even more if various consumptions are considered, as their patterns depend to a large extent on the type of facility and the activity. It is therefore essential to develop tools to assess the balance between generation and demand in a given installation. In this paper, a valuable tool is developed for the seamless calculation of the integration possibilities of renewable energies and the assessment of derived technical, financial and environmental impacts. Furthermore, it also considers their interaction with the power grid or other networks, raising awareness of the polluting emissions responsible for global warming. Through a series of Structured Query Language databases and a dynamic data parameterization, the software is provided with sufficient information to encode, calculate, simulate and graphically display information on the generation and demand of electric, thermal and transport energy, all in a user-friendly environment, finally providing an evaluation and feasibility report.
AB - Combining availability, viability, sustainability, technical options, and environmental impact in an energy-planning project is a difficult job itself for the today’s engineers. This becomes harder if the potential investors also need to be persuaded. Moreover, the problem increases even more if various consumptions are considered, as their patterns depend to a large extent on the type of facility and the activity. It is therefore essential to develop tools to assess the balance between generation and demand in a given installation. In this paper, a valuable tool is developed for the seamless calculation of the integration possibilities of renewable energies and the assessment of derived technical, financial and environmental impacts. Furthermore, it also considers their interaction with the power grid or other networks, raising awareness of the polluting emissions responsible for global warming. Through a series of Structured Query Language databases and a dynamic data parameterization, the software is provided with sufficient information to encode, calculate, simulate and graphically display information on the generation and demand of electric, thermal and transport energy, all in a user-friendly environment, finally providing an evaluation and feasibility report.
KW - Energy balance
KW - Energy mix
KW - Renewable energy sources
KW - Smart grid integration
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85045289497&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3390/su10041153
DO - 10.3390/su10041153
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85045289497
SN - 2071-1050
VL - 10
SP - 1
EP - 34
JO - Sustainability (Switzerland)
JF - Sustainability (Switzerland)
IS - 4
M1 - 1153
ER -