Paper Info
Title
A Flywheel Energy Storage System in a Microgrid for Powering Small Villages in Remote Islands in the South Pacific
Abstract
In most Pacific Island Countries (PICs), the populations reside in isolated communities where electricity generation is hard to access and therefore these communities are heavily dependent on fossil fuel based generation plants. One way to reduce the dependence on these fuels is to use the abundant, albeit intermittent, Renewable Energy Sources (RES). At present most RES based microgrids (MGs) use lead acid battery batteries as the only way to store energy, which can be detrimental for the environment. This paper proposes to minimize the ecological impact support them by using Flywheel Energy Storage Systems (FESS) so as to reduce the size of battery strings required or increase the storage performance of the MG. A case study on data for a small village in Taveuni (Fiji) is presented and the advantages of using a FESS as a back-up storage system are highlighted and discussed.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/ICIT.2019.8754984
2019 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology (ICIT)
Keywords
Field
DocType
remote islands,south pacific,Pacific Island Countries,isolated communities,electricity generation,fossil fuel based generation plants,battery strings,flywheel energy storage system,renewable energy sources,small villages,RES based microgrids,PICs,lead acid battery batteries,FESS,back-up storage system
Energy storage,Environmental protection,Flywheel energy storage,Renewable energy,Lead–acid battery,Control engineering,Fossil fuel,Engineering,Battery (electricity),Electricity generation,Microgrid
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2641-0184
978-1-5386-6377-6
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
S. Rokocakau100.34
H. Mudaliar200.34
D. Kumar311.03
David R. Aitchison400.34
Maurizio Cirrincione500.34
A. Mohammadi600.34