{"title":"Riding through the Experience Curve for Solar Photovoltaics Systems in Germany","authors":"R. Bhandari","doi":"10.1109/IESC.2018.8439945","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IESC.2018.8439945","url":null,"abstract":"Germany is a “mature” market for solar photovoltaics (PV) systems. The electricity production from renewables grew from around 6% in 2000 to nearly 36% in 2017. With the policy instrument feed-in-tariff, the PV installations boomed in the country over the past years, though the recent trend is in decline. Also in many other countries (e.g., China, Japan, etc.) solar PV installation is growing recently at a faster rate than many projected scenarios. It is seen as the next major energy regime in many countries. Hence it is necessary to model the future market growth and predict the further cost reductions under different scenarios of market dynamics. In this paper, using the experience curve model, the historical PV market trend is analyzed and results are used to predict the future of solar PV growth in German and global market, including its cost reduction potential. Also the solar PV policy of Germany has been discussed. As the results, the future PV growth scenarios are presented until 2030 for Germany and global cases. Based on the used experience curve model, the respective future price trends (2030 prices for German PV systems) are projected to be in a range from 250 to 500 €/kWp.","PeriodicalId":147306,"journal":{"name":"2018 7th International Energy and Sustainability Conference (IESC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129689345","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Use of smart technologies for energy efficiency, energy- and load management in small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs)","authors":"Lukas Hilger, T. Schneiders, F. Meyer, J. Kroll","doi":"10.1109/IESC.2018.8439992","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IESC.2018.8439992","url":null,"abstract":"Currently, the impact of digitalisation on the energy sector enables new approaches of products and business models on the market. The use of smart technologies can create added value such as lowering the energy costs by increasing energy efficiency in enterprises. While the topic of using digital and smart technologies for energy efficiency already plays an essential role in large enterprises, small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) are still not aware of the topic in general as well as the benefits of investing in energy efficiency measures.This paper presents an application-oriented scientific approach of identifying the application potential of smart technologies for energy efficiency as well as energy- and load-management in SMEs. Due to the diversity of smart technologies which are actually offered on the market, a technology-screening classifies the different systems into specific categories. These categories are evaluated and assessed in a cross-system comparison regarding the application potential in SMEs. Based on onsite investigations in SMEs, the results show the practical application potential for each technology category according to specific criteria. According to these criteria, smart technologies can be used in different sections of the enterprise, which are also developed during onsite investigations. The key-findings of the onsite investigations will feed into the foreseen application test of smart technologies in SMEs, analysing technical, software-specific and socio-economic aspects of smart technologies close to and in dialogue with the stakeholders.","PeriodicalId":147306,"journal":{"name":"2018 7th International Energy and Sustainability Conference (IESC)","volume":"520 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124483161","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R. Bhandari, J. Gerstner, Hicham Belhassan, Dominik Gtz, Hanno Hausmann
{"title":"Autonomous Electricity Supply with Hybrid Renewable Configuration in Ghana","authors":"R. Bhandari, J. Gerstner, Hicham Belhassan, Dominik Gtz, Hanno Hausmann","doi":"10.1109/IESC.2018.8439991","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IESC.2018.8439991","url":null,"abstract":"Majority of the rural population in developing countries depends on traditional fuels. An estimated 20% world’s population does not have access to electricity. Most of those people live in areas often difficult to connect to electrical grids. Renewable energy technologies might be lower cost options in such areas, where both population and electricity demand are low. The main objective of this study was to develop a reliable and cost competitive autonomous energy supply system with renewable energy resources. As a reference site, a University campus in northern Ghana was chosen. A tool for load profile assessment is developed. Resulting load profiles under different scenario are presented. Available renewable energy resources is estimated. Based on these results, a hybrid system has been sized and is later validated in HOMER Pro®. Results show an autonomous hybrid system configuration with 185 kWp PV, 73 kWh battery and three biodiesel (Jatropha based) generators (165 kVA, 110 kVA and 34 kVA) as optimum to supply the electricity need. Levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) was calculated as 28 €ct/kWh, 2 % lower than the grid electricity price. Sensitivity analysis showed the imputed interest rate, fuel price and investment costs have the most impact on LCOE.","PeriodicalId":147306,"journal":{"name":"2018 7th International Energy and Sustainability Conference (IESC)","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133958360","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Christian Brosig, E. Waffenschmidt, Frank Strmpler
{"title":"Future Economic Efficiency of Gas Distribution Grids","authors":"Christian Brosig, E. Waffenschmidt, Frank Strmpler","doi":"10.1109/IESC.2018.8439977","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IESC.2018.8439977","url":null,"abstract":"One crucial aspect to evaluate different options for sector coupling technologies is the future development of the energy infrastructure with its long operating lifetime and renovation cycles. On the one hand, gas demand in Germany is slightly decreasing during the last years and with necessary renovation rates, efficiency measures, as well as an upcoming electrification, a further decrease is certain. On the other hand, the use of Combined heat and power (CHP) is spreading particularly to provide heat to larger building complexes and power-to-gas is foreseen to be needed for seasonal storage of renewable energies. In this paper, these future aspects and their impact on the economic efficiency of gas distribution grids in Germany are investigated. With the benchmark gas distribution network as a reference, the future development is analyzed in three scenarios: Efficiency, electrification and renewable gas only. It is shown, that under certain circumstances parts of the distribution grid should be shut down, to prevent grid charges from rising.","PeriodicalId":147306,"journal":{"name":"2018 7th International Energy and Sustainability Conference (IESC)","volume":"30 6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126066308","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
E. Waffenschmidt, Andrej Kores, Desiree Fuh, Lee Chi Kwan, L. Heng
{"title":"Grid control with LED lamps","authors":"E. Waffenschmidt, Andrej Kores, Desiree Fuh, Lee Chi Kwan, L. Heng","doi":"10.1109/IESC.2018.8439973","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IESC.2018.8439973","url":null,"abstract":"Renewable energy supply is worldwide emerging. The aim is a 100% supply with renewable energies. This way, conventional electrical power generators will be replaced by decentralized power sources, which feed in power to the grid using electrical power converters. Rotating inertia and speed controllers used for the control of the power grid will disappear and must be replaced by a suitable control of the future grid devices. However, not only feed in devices may contribute to the grid control, but also electrical loads may contribute their part.In this publication options to use LED lamps as variable loads are investigated. As a comparison, the brightness of incandescent lamps (“light bulbs”) may vary approximately +/ 20% of their nominal power at +/ 10% of the nominal voltage. It is known that slow variations of the lamp brightness are not perceived by users. Here, suitable ramp rates are determined by a survey with a number of test persons in Köln, Germany, and Hong Kong. It turned out that the possible ramp rates and the possible power change, which are not perceivable, can be a significant fraction of the nominal lamp power, such that Primary Control Power and Fast Frequency Control might be provided with LED lamps.","PeriodicalId":147306,"journal":{"name":"2018 7th International Energy and Sustainability Conference (IESC)","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133453486","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Issa Faye, Gabriel Jean Philippe, Ababacar Ndiaye, U. Blieske, D. Kobor, R. Gecke
{"title":"Degradation and comparative experimental study of crystalline photovoltaic module after a few years outdoor exposure in casamance and cologne climate","authors":"Issa Faye, Gabriel Jean Philippe, Ababacar Ndiaye, U. Blieske, D. Kobor, R. Gecke","doi":"10.1109/IESC.2018.8439990","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IESC.2018.8439990","url":null,"abstract":"In the present study, degradation analysis of two System of 20 poly-crystalline silicon PV module are investigated. This study reports data collected from 20 distinct poly-crystalline modules deployed at two cities with different weather conditions. The first system is installed in Casamance (Senegal), and the second one in Cologne (Germany). After a few years exposition in outdoor, a comprehensive analysis has been carried out through visual inspection, infrared thermal imaging and I-V characteristic. The global degradation of the power output (Pmax) has been measured to be from 8.75%/year to 22.45%/year in Casamance and 0.8%/year to 1,4%/year in Cologne. The following degradation mechanism have been detected: delamination (corrosion), hot-spot, soiling and cell crack.","PeriodicalId":147306,"journal":{"name":"2018 7th International Energy and Sustainability Conference (IESC)","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123134341","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Holistic Day-Ahead Scheduling Approach for inhomogeneous Pools considering common German Compensation and Cost Structures","authors":"A. Koch, John Gall, C. Rehtanz","doi":"10.1109/IESC.2018.8439961","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IESC.2018.8439961","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper a mixed-integer linear programming optimization approach is introduced, which allows a detailed modelling of various Virtual Power Plants (VPP) consisting of different generation, storage and demand assets with specific operating costs, incentive tariffs, sales channels and usual operation restrictions such as minimum and maximum demand and generation power, load gradients, etc. The assets can thereby be considered as independent units with an own grid access, but can also be assigned to complex grid connection points (GCP) where the units are then utilized to meet local heat and electricity demand, maximize profit and comply to local restrictions. In addition to that it is possible to define soft and hard feed-in and acquisition constraints for the overall VPP energy schedule. To enable the VPP optimization and take into account these three different optimization levels, an accounting method which considers all internal and external usages of energy for each asset is introduced. The simulation results show that the optimization model can effectively find the economically best schedule by varying trading volumes, energy self-sufficiency of single users or exchange of energy within the VPP.","PeriodicalId":147306,"journal":{"name":"2018 7th International Energy and Sustainability Conference (IESC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131344441","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Analysis and Modelling of the Future Electricity Price Development by taking the Levelized Cost of Electricity and large Battery Storages into Account","authors":"S. Baum, C. von Kalben, A. Maas, I. Stadler","doi":"10.1109/IESC.2018.8440005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IESC.2018.8440005","url":null,"abstract":"This paper deals with an analysis of the future development of electricity prices by taking the levelized costs of electricity (LCOE) into account. Based on learning curves the amount of future investment costs for renewable energy and a battery storage can be modelled. Using the annuity method by considering forecasted future fuel and CO2 certificate costs, the LCOE for the investigated power plants and storage is calculated for the years 2017, 2030 and 2050. These LCOE are converted into a merit order by taking a possible development of the German power plants into account. The results show that renewable energy will be ahead of conventional power plants in a merit order classified by the LCOE in the years 2030 and 2050. The analysis also shows that the levelized costs of storage (LCOS) in combination with electricity generated by PV or onshore wind turbines is cheaper than the production in a coal-fired power plant.","PeriodicalId":147306,"journal":{"name":"2018 7th International Energy and Sustainability Conference (IESC)","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115316170","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Spectral characterisation of high temperature solar absorber coatings","authors":"Leslie Herding, S. Caron, V. Nickich, F. Sutter","doi":"10.1109/IESC.2018.8439970","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IESC.2018.8439970","url":null,"abstract":"Four newly developed solar absorber coatings are to be evaluated with the help of thermal cycling and optical characterisation. An initial round robin campaign reveals the need of a standardisation of the calculation procedure of solar absorptance and thermal emittance derived from optical measurements at room temperature. The implementation of a common processing of spectral hemispherical reflectance values enables a reduction of standard deviations to 0.2%, both for solar absorptance and thermal emittance. The calculation procedure proposed within this paper corresponds to DIN EN 22975–3 and enables the verification of measurement reproducibility according to ASTM E 691 – 05.","PeriodicalId":147306,"journal":{"name":"2018 7th International Energy and Sustainability Conference (IESC)","volume":"64 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114588258","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}