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    Microgrid energy management through levelized cost of energy metric

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    2020
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    Swanepoel, C.G.
    Van Schoor, G.
    Uren, K.R.
    Rens, A.P.J.
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    The abundance of solar energy in Africa provides the ideal opportunity to mitigate the concerns on price, reliability and voltage quality of electricity supply to end-users. Rooftop PV and local energy storage solutions in a microgrid where energy is well managed, could unlock significant savings in energy costs and improve voltage quality and reliability. Each microgrid is a unique use-case due to the variation in type, size and costing of energy resources, and the loading and billing structure. This paper presents a methodology to identify and select microgrid energy management objectives using levelized cost of energy as the reference metric. The theoretical framework is validated by implementation in a real microgrid and concludes that Li-Ion energy storage is still too expensive for grid-tied applications in South Africa
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    http://hdl.handle.net/10394/34574
    https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9041037
    https://doi.org/10.1109/SAUPEC/RobMech/PRASA48453.2020.9041037
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