Centre of Research UMPEDAC, Level 4, Wisma R&D, University of Malaya, 59990 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Kufa, 21 Kufa, Najaf, Iraq
art ic l e i nf o
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Article history:
Received 28 August 2014
Received in revised form
31 May 2015
Accepted 18 September 2015
Smart grid engineering is the key for a benecial use of widespread energy resources, it is a modernized
electrical grid that uses analog or digital information and communications technology. Renewable energy
itself a thrust area of research due to its availability, applicability and environmental friendly nature and
the application of smart grid in renewable energy makes it vast and more promising. This fusion enables
the efcient use of renewable energies which is a key challenge for now. The present review paper
attempts to investigate the role of smart grid in the renewable energy. The introductory section sets the
role of renewable energy and distributed power in a smart grid system. Subsections cover the concept
and availability of renewable energies, renewable energy power calculation formulae, smart grid concepts and its feasibility, case studied as performed by different researchers around the World, discussion
and future recommendations and nally the conclusions from the study. To achieve this, articles from
different sources such as internet, reports, conferences and journals of Elsevier, Springer, Tailor and
Franacis, Wiley and many more have been collected and reviewed. This paper concludes that renewable
energies can be used efciently and in a smart way by using the smart grids. However, the smart grid
technology is not mature enough and needs more research on the same.
& 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Keywords:
Renewable energy
Smart grid system
Renewable power
Energy
Contents
1.
2.
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1169
Renewable energy: basic concepts and availability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1169
2.1.
Hydro energy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1169
2.1.1.
Hydropower technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1170
2.1.2.
Sizes and capacities of hydroelectric facilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1170
2.1.3.
World hydroelectric capacity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1170
2.2.
Wind energy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1170
2.2.1.
Wind turbine technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1171
2.2.2.
Investigation the power generated from wind turbine plant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1171
2.3.
Solar energy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1172
2.3.1.
Photovoltaic technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1172
2.3.2.
World photovoltaic power stations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1172
2.3.3.
Concentrating solar thermal power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1172
2.4.
Biomass energy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1173
2.4.1.
Biomass technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1173
2.4.2.
Biofuels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1173
2.4.3.
Ethanol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1174
2.4.4.
Biodiesel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1174
2.4.5.
Biopower . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1174
2.5.
Geothermal energy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1174
Corresponding authors.
E-mail addresses: naseer.alkhalidi@uokufa.edu.iq (N.A. Madlool), jeyraj@um.edu.my (J. Selvaraj), adarsh@um.edu.my (A.K. Pandey).
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2.5.1.
Geothermal technologies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1175
2.5.2.
Direct-use of geothermal technologies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1175
2.5.3.
Electricity generation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1175
2.5.4.
Investigate the World Geothermal electric capacity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1175
3. Renewable energy power calculation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1176
4. Smart grid: an overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1176
4.1.
Substation automation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1178
4.2.
Network reliability. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1180
5. Case studies on smart grid: renewable energy perspective. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1180
6. Conclusions, current trends and future recommendation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1182
6.1.
Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1182
6.2.
Current trends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1182
6.3.
Future recommendations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1183
Acknowledgment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1183
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1183
1. Introduction
Energy is able to do the work. In science, energy can be neither
created nor be destroyed, just transformed into another form.
Energy and its conversion are vital for all life in the world and the
basic part of the energy conversion includes into useable energy
production. During this process, the energy can be transformed
into several different forms. The different form of energy can get
from nonrenewable and renewable energy sources. The most uses
energy sources are form nonrenewable fossil fuels, oil, natural gas
and coal. Another nonrenewable source is element uranium whose
can be created hug heat and ultimately electricity. Fossil fuels and
nuclear energy are the leading energy sources and can be stored in
many countries. The uses of fossil fuels have almost been double
from 630,000 to 121,000 TW h and the uses of coal and natural gas
has also increased in the year 19732010. However, the uses of
nuclear energy are much lower than the fossil fuels, about
84000 TW h in 2010 [1].
The use of renewable energy increased greatly just after the
rst big oil crisis in the late seventies. Although in most power
generating systems, the main source of energy (the fuel) can
manipulate, this is not true for solar, water and wind energies [2].
The solar energy is the main source for renewable energy which
can be used directly as Bioenergy and other related renewable
sources. Where a small part of the solar energy that reaches the
surface of the earth is used in photosynthesis. The irradiation solar
energy to energy stored in the biomass is only 4.66%. According
to International Energy Agency, about 15,000 TW h was used for
energy purposes in 2010. Where wind energy utilization was
574 TW h in 2012 and the hydropower was 3438 TW h in 2010.
However, the utilization of solar energy is very low, about
100 TW h [1].
The main problems with these renewable energy sources are
cost and availability; wind, hydro and solar power are not always
available where and when needed. Unlike conventional sources of
electric power, these renewable sources are not dispatch able the
power output cannot control. Daily and seasonal effects and limited predictability result in intermittent generation. Smart grids
promise to facilitate the integration of renewable energy and will
provide other benets as well [2]. A smart grid is an electrical grid
that uses information and communication technology. The information about the behaviors of suppliers and consumers, which is
automated fashion to improve the efciency, reliability, economics, and sustainability of the production and distribution of electricity [3]. Most smart grids are located aside from closely populated areas, near a fuel source and at a dam site, to take advantage
from the renewable energy sources. They are usually quite large to
take benets of the economies of scale. The electric power, which
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capacity
(GW)
Capacity
factor
% of total
capacity
China
Canada
Brazil
United States
Russia
Norway
India
Venezuela
Japan
Sweden
652.05
369.5
363.8
250.6
167.0
140.5
115.6
85.96
69.2
65.5
196.79
88.974
69.080
79.511
45.000
27.528
33.600
14.622
27.229
16.209
0.37
0.59
0.56
0.42
0.42
0.49
0.43
0.67
0.37
0.46
22.25
61.12
85.56
5.74
17.64
98.25
15.80
69.20
7.21
44.34
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over the world. In Germany is the third country that used the
wind power as a main supply for power. In April, 2010, Germany
launched its rst the offshore wind park, which is called Alpha
Ventus in the North Sea. Though offshore wind is considered a
main growth place for a government, it aims to produce
7.6 Gigawatts of wind energy established by 2020. Hence, one
obstacle is evolved is that the loss of grid connections from the
North Sea coast to the main markets of southern Germany. Germany's wind power strategy is continuously faced with critics
proclaiming that it has a high cost and being unsteady. In addition, those inquirers claim that these wind patterns are irregular.
The fourth mast using the wind power energy is Spain. In order to
apply the target of producing, even more of the national, electricity demand from wind power, Spain needs a valid and planned grid framework work to support a sector that increased 11
percent in 2011. The fth most using the wind-power energy is
India. In 1990s witnessed the begging of using wind energy in
India. The subcontinent is a relative factor in this eld, but soon it
will become the fth largest wind power market all over the
world. Thus, in 2011, INDIA HAD 16,084 MW of wind power
productivity. The sixth most using the wind power energy is
France with a growing wind power potential, and of 6800 MW. In
2011, France encountered many problems regarding the wind
power installation, i.e., the lack of protection zones and grid
connections whereby wind turbines are not permitted. The
seventh most using the wind-power energy is Italy. The Italian
government, in 1999, planned to launch 2500 MW of wind power
by 2010. Italy increased this intent in 2007 and by 2011; it had
6747 MW of wind power amount supported by the worlds most
generous feed in tariffs for electricity produced by wind farms.
The eight most using the wind power energy is the United
Kingdom. U.K plans to extend up to 29,000 MG of volume by
2020 with a cost of a cost of around 159 billion dollars. The ninth
most using the wind power energy is Canada. The Canadian wind
energy association has a prospective strategy for producing
power through wind energy. They aim to produce 55,000 MW by
2025 to suggest 20% of the country's energy requirements. This
would also redeem 17 megatons of greenhouse gas set forth
every year. Finally is Portugal, which is scaled secondly comparing with Denmark due to wind power's participation to electricity supply; with 15 percent of the country's power produced
out of the wind. Furthermore, it is also planned to raise its wind
energy from 3535 MW in 2009 to 5300 MW by 2012 [14]. Fig. 4
shows the global wind power generation forecasted in GW from
2010 to 2015. Where, Asia is the rst largest region for wind
power production. While, some other regions: Europe, America is
also increasing the production of wind energy as well [16].
Table 2 shows the world ten countries wind energy production
in 2011 [17].
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China
United States
Germany
Spain
India
France
Italy
The United Kingdom
Canada
Portugal
62,733
46,919
29,060
21,674
16,084
6800
6747
6540
5265
4083
2011
2011
2011
2011
2011
2011
2011
2011
2011
2011
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Table 3
World's largest photovoltaic power stations (50 MW or larger) [23].
PV power station
Country
DC peak power
(MWp)
USA
250 AC
India
221
China
200
USA
150
Germany
145
Germany
France
Ukraine
Canada
Italy
128.48
115
100
97
84.2
Germany
Ukraine
Germany
Germany
Italy
Spain
Germany
Spain
80.7
80
78
71.8
70
60
54
Notes
References
[35]
[36]
[37,38]
[39,40]
Opened 2008
[48]
[47]
[46]
Spain
Spain
Spain
Spain
Spain
Spain
Spain
Palma del Rio Solar Power Station
Manchasol Power Station
Valle Solar Power Station
Helioenergy Solar Power Station
Aste Solar Power Station
Solacor Solar Power Station
Helios Solar Power Station
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
Palma del Ro
Alczar de San Juan
San Jos del Valle
cija
Alczar de San Juan
El Carpio
Puerto Lpice
Collection of 9 units
Completed 2010
Completed 2011, with 7.5 h thermal energy storage
Extresol 1 completed February 2010, Extresol 2 completed December 2010, Extresol 3 completed August 2012, with 7.5 h
thermal energy storage
Palma del Rio 2 completed December 2010, Palma del Rio 1 completed July 2011
Manchasol-1 completed January 2011, with 7.5 h heat storage Manchasol-2 completed April 2011, with 7.5 h heat storage
Completed December 2011, with 7.5 h heat storage
Helioenergy 1 completed September 2011, Helioenergy 2 completed January 2012
Aste 1A Completed January 2012, with 8 h heat storage, Aste 1B Completed January 2012, with 8 h heat storage
Solacor 1 completed February 2012, Solacor 2 completed March 2012
Helios 1 completed May 2012 Helios 2 completed August 2012
Mojave Desert California
Seville
Granada
Torre de Miguel Sesmero
USA
Spain
Spain
Spain
Solar Energy Generating Systems
Solnova Solar Power Station
Andasol solar power station
Extresol Solar Power Station
354
150
150
150
Notes
Country Location
Capacity (MW) Name
Table 4
Largest operational solar thermal power stations [42].
[43]
[44,45]
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Fig. 7. Flow diagram of the whole process of energy from biomass system [57] with
permission from Elsevier.
benet for our energy security, economic growth, and environmental. New forms of biofuels are the main biofuels research at
present. For instance, ethanol and biodiesel, and biofuels conversion processes [58,59].
2.4.3. Ethanol
Ethanol alcohol is composed of the starch of corn grain originally. Generally employed as an addition to petroleum-based
fuels for decreasing noxious air emissions and increasing octane.
Nowadays, probably 1/2 gasoline sold in the US, and 510% are
ethanol among them [60].
2.4.4. Biodiesel
The benets of biodiesel for air quality are meaningful even
small utilize. Under the condition of a catalyst for forming ethyl or
methyl ester, biodiesel is obtained by means of the process that
the compounds organically-derived oils with alcohol (ethanol or
methanol). The biomass-derived ethyl or methyl esters can be
together with conventional diesel, or as an entire user fuel [61].
Fig. 8 shows the global biofuels production in 2013. Where, North
America is ranked No. 1 for biofuels and Ethanol production in
2013, as reported form world energy review 2014. However, the
rest of the world, producing very little amount of biodiesel and
Ethanol [62].
2.4.5. Biopower
Bio power is the production of electricity or heater from biomass resources. Bio power technologies with 10 Gigawatts of
installed capacity are priority options in the US currently. It
includes precise combustion, co-ring, and anaerobic digestion
[50]. We can see the world biomass power station and their
capacity from Table 5.
2.5. Geothermal energy
Geothermal energy is a type of thermal energy. It is derived
from the earth and store inside automatically. The temperature of
the matter depends on the energy of the thermal energy. The
earth's crust has the geothermal energy that includes the imaginative formation of the planet (20%) and radioactive decay of
minerals (80%) [67,68].
The thermal energy is produced by the radioactive decompose
and temperature gets 5000 C (9000 F) at the earths heat. The heat
evolves directly from the core to the encompassing cooler rock. In
the case of high degrees and load, the rock will be melted and
producing magma convention comes up due to it's slighter than the
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Country
Capacity
(MW)
Ref
750
[63,65]
United
Kingdom
Finland
265
[65]
Poland
Belgium
Finland
205
180
150
[64]
[64]
[66]
3
4
5
concrete rock. Thus, water from the magma and heat from the rock
on the outer surface up reaches to 370 C (700 F) [69].
Hot springs, geothermal energy was used for washing for many
years in the Paleolithic times and for space warming in Roman
times, but only now it is better recognized for electricity generation. It is estimated that about 10,715 MW (MW) of geothermic
power worldwide is online in 24 countries. Additionally,
28 Gigawatts of geothermal heating volume are established for
area heating, spas, space heating, industrial strategies, desalination
and agricultural uses [70].
2.5.1. Geothermal technologies
In general, geothermal technologies employs the pure, maintainable heat from the Earth, so the geothermal resources, involving the heart reserved in deep ground hot water and rock, existed
a few miles under the Earth's surface. That extremely high-temperature, dissolved rock is famous as magma located bottomless in
the Earth [71].
2.5.2. Direct-use of geothermal technologies
The hot water on the Earth's surface might be adopted for
various commercial and industrial uses. Direct-use benets
involve drying crops, heating buildings, heating water at sh
farms, and other industrial usages like boiling milk [71].
2.5.3. Electricity generation
It basically occurs in traditional gas turbines and dual plants
relaying on the properties of the geothermal resource. Additionally, classical steam turbines need liquids at temperatures reaching
minimum 150 C and only present with either compressing
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electrical grid that uses analog or digital information and communications technology. In renewable energy, smart grid is a
sector or a communication area that can connect the production
from renewable energy sources to the grid. However, the communication in between renewable energy production to smart grid
brings many challenges such as stability issues, complicated
operating process and remote control together. The electrical
power system is a principal structure of modern society. This
power distribution network reaches all most every home, ofce,
factory and institution in developed countries and developing
countries such as Malaysia, China and India. Electrical power and
distribution is a combined complex system and no single entity
has complete control of these multi-scale, nor does any such entity
have the ability to evaluate, monitor and manage them in real
time. The grid is not only electrical transmission system from
power plants to the substation, but it also covers the distribution,
electricity from the substations to the individual user. There will
be many challenging processes and technology are included in the
smart grid system, such as monitoring and analysis, automation or
control (active control of high voltage device, robustness, reliability, security and efciency etc), integration and control of distributed energy resources such as micro grid, renewable energies,
solid oxide, fuel cells, battery storage systems etc. There will be
needed advance satellite, communications and computers for
installing several devices, such as phasor measurement units
(PMU), digital frequency recorders (DFR), dynamic swing records
(DSR) and need global positioning system (GPS). The wide area
management systems (WAMS) devices will be installed for big
area such as New York area. Now those devices need protection
and security. For security reason need to develop integrated,
metric analysis and their corresponding states. Another important
need to develop consumers and economic factors for potential
electricity markets. These technologies are covered transmission,
sub-transmission and distribution in smart grid system [83].
The worlds power grids were designed without time-to-time
when they grew. Grid connections began between the generating
stations and the loads of point-to-point. Generally, loads could be
restricted large consumers, for instance, a factory, streetcar line
Fig. 10. The world geothermal electricity production and installation capacity [76].
Table 6
Installed geothermal electric capacity [74,77,78].
Country
Capacity (MW)
2007
Capacity (MW)
2010
Capacity (MW)
2013
Capacity (MW)
2015
United States
Philippines
Indonesia
Mexico
Italy
New Zealand
Iceland
Japan
Iran
El Salvador
Kenya
Costa Rica
Nicaragua
Russia
Turkey
Papua-New Guinea
Guatemala
Portugal
China
France
Ethiopia
Germany
Austria
Australia
Thailand
2687
1969.7
992
953
810.5
471.6
421.2
535.2
250
204.2
128.8
162.5
87.4
79
38
56
53
23
27.8
14.7
7.3
8.4
1.1
0.2
0.3
3086
1904
1197
958
843
628
575
536
250
204
167
166
88
82
82
56
52
29
24
16
7.3
6.6
1.4
1.1
0.3
3389
1894
1333
980
901
895
664
537
3450
1870
1340
1017
916
1005
665
519
0.3
27
3.7
3
1.5
10
30
0.1
29
18
11
9
8
6
5
5
204
215
208
104
97
163
56
42
28
27
15
8
13
1
1
0.3
204
594
207
159
82
397
50
52
29
27
16
7.3
27
1.2
1.1
0.3
25
11.2
14
10
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Table 7
Basic formulas for renewable energy [5,7982].
Name of Renewable
energy
Example
Hydropower (Water
energy)
The power available from falling water can be calculated from The power is calculated for a turbine that is 85% efcient, with water at
the ow rate and density of water, the height of fall, and the 62.25 pounds/cubic foot (998 kg/cubic meter) and a ow rate of 2800 cubic-feet/
second (79.3 cubic-meters/second), gravity of 9.80 m/s2 and with a net head of
local acceleration due to gravity. In SI units, the power is:
480 ft (146.3 m).
In SI units:
P Q gh
where
Power MW 0:85 99879:39:80146:3
1000000
Solar energy
Where
P power in watts
The air density (1.2 kg/m3 @ sea level and 20 C)
A The swept area of the turbine blades (m2 square meters)
V wind speed ( meters per second)
For solar energy, all of these electrical units of measure are
used together to determine the Volts, Amps and Watts for any
particular solar electric application.
P VI
Where
P is power (W)
V is voltage (Volt)
I is current (amp)
Biomass energy
This equation is simple load analysis but for solar PV power, we can use this
formula, as for:
One single solar panel from type standard 150 W/24 V can deliver a power of
150 W per hour, considering full sunshine.
One solar panel of 150 W/24 V produce between 150 W 4 h 600 W h and
150 W 6 h 900 W h.
One battery of 12 V/110 Ah has a capacity of 12 V 110 Ah 1320 Wh
Consider a gas turbine CHP system that produces steam for space heating with
The most commonly used approach to determining a CHP
(Combined heat and power) systems efciency is to calculate the following characteristics:
total system efciency.
P
WE
Q TH
Fuel Input (MMBtu/hr)
41
3
Q FUEL
Electric efciency:
WE
P Q
EE
Where
Using the total system efciency metric, the CHP system efciency is 68 percent
(3.0 3.41317.7)/41).
Using the effective electric efciency metric, the CHP system efciency is 54
percent (3.0 3.413)/(41 (17.7/0.8).
Q FUEL
3.0
17.7
TH
Geothermal energy
Tc 100460 560 R
TCE Theoretical cycle efciency
Efficiency 1460 560=1460 100 61:6%
Th absolute temperature of the steam leaving the boiler R
Tl absolute temperature of the condenser R
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Fig. 11. Advance system production and distribution of a smart grid structure [87] with permission from Elsevier.
Fig. 12. The Smart Grid extends measurement and control across generating stations, the distribution network, and power consumers [87] with permission from Elsevier.
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Fig. 13. Substations are shifting toward the use of networks for the interconnect of their equipment [88].
Fig. 14. PRP and HSR redundancy standards can differ in network topology [88].
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1180
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control properly. However, the principle became more complicated after the addition of a connection with the needs for
knowledgeable, certain response and the desire of avoiding
incompatibilities among equipment vendors. The industry produced IEC 61850 (a standard for power-utility network) to address
these problems [88].
The standard is facile for interoperability and specifying a
protocol stack for regional area network (LAN). Making responsetime requirements for critical transaction, for example, transferring real-time data sample and getting safety-critical commands to
circuit breakers. Only IEC 61850-compliant network ample headroom to perform a substation's and protection functions is not
enough [88].
4.2. Network reliability
Network reliability in SG as the continuous electricity supply
for the customers. Its already dened the smart grid transmission
and distribution. If there is a network problem between transmission and distribution, the connection will go through by pass to
the consumers. There will be many reasons by affected the network reliability such as: faults in transmission parts or the generation, force Majeure included weather conditions, earthquakes,
external causes faults due to third parties, poor condition of the
grid, design or network operation etc. With this reason an electric
grid is unreliable to the customers. There are also signicant risks
of nancial and economic loss of power grid equipment. In this
section will introduce an electric grid network topology [8992].
A network-based substation SCADA system creates some fascinating possibilities: for example, a cracked connector or failed
transceiver bringing down an entire substation. Accordingly, utility
operators and equipment developers have resorted to network
redundancy, and have codied their thinking in another standard,
IEC 62439 High Availability Automation Networks [93].
The standard, as currently amended, permits a blend of two
different redundant-network schemes: Parallel Redundancy Protocol (PRP) and the high-availability seamless redundancy (HSR) in
Fig. 14. The former standard species a star topology with
redundant switches so that there are two paths to each node,
while the latter can be used with either a star or bi-directional ring
topologies [88].
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Fig. 15. Smart grid system approach understands in Korea [97] with permission from Elsevier.
Fig. 16. Power grid frequency without control [101] with permission from Elsevier.
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Fig. 18. The number of articles published for smart grid and renewable energies for
the period from 2000 to 2016. Source: Science Direct, solar, wind, hydroelectricity,
biomass and geothermal energy.
frequency variation without any latency presented with communicating the control [101].
Jessica Daz (2014) and his research team did a case study agile
product line architecting in a smart grid system in Spain. They
developed Product Line Architecture (PLA) framework with the
help of Agile Product Line Engineering (APLE) for power metering
management applications for smart grid. It is very easy and
adaptable program and already uses several companies in Spain. In
their nding the APLE supported the successful development and
evaluation of the power metering management application. The
grid system is a complicated a broad range of energy resources
which from large generating systems to the smaller generation
system. During these processes need to apply PLA with respect to
APLE the system will be more exible to solve the complicity. They
promote the integration method of renewable energy resources
and the possibility is successful. They suggested future work on
proving exibility form feature to user stories and architecture and
code to test of Agile Software Development [102].
Mart van der Kam and Wilfried van Sark (2015) did research on
electric vehicles with photovoltaic power and vehicle to grid
technology in a micro-grid in Netherland. They presented a model
for developing self-consumption of photovoltaic power by smart
charging of electric vehicles and vehicle to grid technology. The
simulation results show the self-consumption increased and
demand peaks decrease, which is the benets of smart charging
with PV power. It is also recommended for different renewable
energy sources that can be combined with transport technologies
to reduce any negative impact on the existing energy infrastructure [103].
This section presented a case study review on a smart grid
system with respect to different countries and authors opinion
and discussion from which it is clear that the smart grid is rapidly
improving depending on the advances in power electronics, smart
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To improve the overall existing system by using smart equipment, the network communication needs to be centralized
where it can be operation technology integrated between consumer and supply. Develop new marketing plan for customer's
product and service about renewable sources.
Acknowledgment
The authors are thankful to the University of Malaya, the
Ministry of Higher Education of Malaysia (MOHE) (UM.C/HIR/
MOHE/ENG/32) and UM Power Energy Dedicated Advanced Centre
(UMPEDAC) for supporting this research project (PPP Project,
Centre of Research Grant Management (PPGP) (PG096-2014B)),
which made possible the publication of this paper.
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