Holistic approach to energy storage management aspects in sustainable community

Grzegorz  Augustyn; Jerzy  Mikulik

doi:10.59400/esc1546

Holistic approach to energy storage management aspects in sustainable community

Grzegorz Augustyn AGH University of Krakow, 30-059 Kraków, Poland
Jerzy Mikulik AGH University of Krakow, 30-059 Kraków, Poland

Article ID: 1546

DOI: https://doi.org/10.59400/esc1546

Keywords: energy storage; circular economy; energy management; sustainable community; circular economy

Abstract

Energy management is nowadays key topic for synchronic operation of renewable sources of energy and their recipients. Contemporary national electrical power grid systems more often cannot supply efficiently electrical energy and cannot receive energy produced by renewable sources. The common approach to the problem is to meet energy demands supplying from electrical grid and renewable power sources with energy storage feature. From the other side, off-grid solutions based on the co-generation biogas plants are commonly aimed on small local communities as power supply supported by renewable energy systems like photovoltaic (PV) systems, wind power plants or small water plants with energy storage to support self-consumption of electrical energy. Integration of intermittent renewable power sources, such as solar, wind and biogas plant, increases the difficulty of managing the electricity grid and maintaining the balance of electricity supply and demand, especially in small communities. The holistic approach to the energy storage management takes all above aspects and presents the concept where municipal waste is used to produce energy in biogas plant supported by PV systems and community shared electrical energy storage to provide uninterrupted power supply. The study also presents how energy storage management can be used in whole process to adjust the size and manage energy supply and demand within the community based on energy self-consumption optimization. It is also shown that by utilizing municipal waste produced by the community we can meet the goals of circular economy and sustainable development of local communities as the waste will be used in full without necessity of recycling it outside the community. The novelty of the study is the foundation for energy storage capacity and renewable energy sources size evaluation to balance energy management process without the need of on-grid power supply and with use only municipal biodegradable waste for biogas fuel supply and solar energy for energy production.

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