Title:	Towards a New Approach in Evaluating the Practical Economic Performance of Off-Grid Storage-Less Hybrid Energy System With Integrated Solar Forecast
Author(s):	F. Zhuang, R. Amaro e Silva, T. Carrière, B. Gschwind, Y.M. Saint-Drenan, P. Blanc
Keywords:	Economic Analysis, Plant Control, Stand Alone PV, PV Systems
Topic:	Energy Transition – Integration, Storage, Sustainability, Policy, Economics, Energy Poverty, Society
Subtopic:	Costs, Economics, Finance and Markets
Event:	8th World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion
Session:	5DV.2.90
Pages:	1662 - 1667
ISBN:	3-936338-86-8
Paper DOI:	10.4229/WCPEC-82022-5DV.2.90
Price:	0,00 EUR
Document(s):	paper, poster

Abstract/Summary:

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Photovoltaic (PV) energy plays an important role in the energy transition, especially for off-grid contexts, through a format of Hybrid Energy System (HES) with storage system. Yet, using a storage system comes with additional investment costs, extra environmental impact and maintenance issues, etc. For an off-grid PV/Diesel HES, a precisely designed Power Management System (PMS) with short-term solar forecast could be used to reduce or even avoid the use of energy storage system. Hence, this work aims to find out the feasibility of this concept, and introduce a new approach to evaluate the HES performance rather than using classic statistical metrics like Root Mean Square Error (RMSE) and MAE (Mean Absolute Error). Besides, several scenarios are tested to explore the influence of different elements on HES performance.