Scheduling and Feasibility Study on the Penetration of Distributed Energy Resources in an Industrial Microgrids: National Iranian Copper Industries Co - Sarcheshmeh site Case Study

Abstract

Over the last decades due to human growing requirements for energy, irreparable damages such as greenhouse gases increase and natural resources reduction has been confronting the environment. The significance of replacing fossil fuel power stations with distributed energy resources (DERs) in microgrids will not only provide pleasing reliability and customer confidence but also due to its near distance to the consumption site least energy losses are expected. This paper presents a feasibility study on operating different distributed generation (DG) technologies such as fuel cell (FC), microturbine (MT) and combined heat and power system (CHP) in a real industrial microgrid. A common industrial microgrid includes loads, DERs and energy storage equipment. Here it is considered the Sarcheshmeh Copper Industrial Complex-Iran as our case study to study the feasibility penetration of DER units and economic dispatch strategies.