Distributed solar energy storage costs

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How much does a distributed generation system cost?

Furthermore, the optimal solutions from integrating distributed generation units such as WFs, PVFs, and BESS also bring great benefits compared to the non-integrated system. In the base system, total costs are very high and equal to $44.5685 million. On the contrary, the total costs are significantly smaller in the modified system.

How many wind farms & photovoltaic farms can be integrated into a distribution system?

This work has assumed that two wind farms, two photovoltaic farms and one battery energy storage system are integrated into the distribution systems by applying inverters with a fixed 0.9 lagging power factor 31. Minimum and maximum numbers of the WFs and PVFs are 2 and 15 wind turbines, and 2,000 and 10,000 photovoltaic modules, respectively.

What is considered a cost of a power plant?

The considered costs include (1) investment, operation, and maintenance (O&M) costs of WFs, PVFs, and BESS; (2) imported energy cost for loads and power losses from the main power grid; and (3) generated emission cost from conventional power plants considering time-varying generation and consumption.

What if a distributed generation unit does not have enough power?

Realistically, if distributed generation units (WFs, PVFs, and BESS) do not have enough power to supply the loads due to high demand and low generation, purchasing electrical energy from the traditional power plants through the substation at the slack node is necessary.

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