Hi Khanal,

To find a generic methodology for every country community won’t be easy. Since the conditions regarding, the energy system, local planning traditions, amount planning participants or their interests might differ strongly. Here, a generic energy planning approach which might be helpful for you. It have being referred in many papers and used in different cities.

 Mirakyan A, De Guio R (2013) Integrated energy planning in cities and territories: A review of methods and tools. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 22 (0):289-297. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2013.01.033

Hello,

My guess is that if you´re looking for energy-related works for isolated communities with a significant degree of sustainability you should go for renewable energy collecting and transfer. For each of these areas I suggest you make some Internet search:

Renewable energies: Distributed Energy Resources, Renewable Energy Sources, Photovoltaic energy, offshore (and regular!) windmills.

Energy transfer: Transmission System Operators (TSO), Distributed System Operator (DSO), the Smart Grid.

I hope this helps!

Thank you for your answer. I know the basics and concepts about the topics you have mentioned, up to the level that internet search and few technical papers can help me. Can you direct me to some research works done in the field, please?

Hi!

I invite you to review the following website , which is of Mining and Energy Planning Unit of Colombia ( UPME for its acronym in Spanish ). Looking the part of non-interconnected areas, there are no documents , papers, presentations and much information.

http://www1.upme.gov.co/

Non-interconnected areas

http://www1.upme.gov.co/

http://www1.upme.gov.co/search/node/ZNI

Hi Khanal,

To find a generic methodology for every country community won’t be easy. Since the conditions regarding, the energy system, local planning traditions, amount planning participants or their interests might differ strongly. Here, a generic energy planning approach which might be helpful for you. It have being referred in many papers and used in different cities.

 Mirakyan A, De Guio R (2013) Integrated energy planning in cities and territories: A review of methods and tools. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 22 (0):289-297. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2013.01.033

Hi

There are many factors that influence the 'success' of  the implementation of energy systems for rural communities. These factors are different from one community to another. What have worked for one community may not work for another. Also, when defining sustainable energy systems, it comes down to whose perspective - the funding organization or the installer or the community. At a glance, the hybrid energy system (I am assuming there will be a DG in your design) may not be sustainable for the community - being 'isolated' they may be completely cut-off from getting fuel supply. My suggestion is to look at various criteria for 'success'. You can do a google scholar search for Dr. Tarnia Urmee from Murdoch University in Australia. Most of her research are directed toward the assessment of rural electrification projects. By this I mean not just by looking at technology aspect but equally (if not more) important is to look at social, culture, economic, political and environmental aspects. Hope this helps. 

Planning for sustainable rural community is all about technology can can overcome the barriers of entry and act as an enabler and driver for new technology. As in Southern Africa we are working on the same principles and we find that solar combined heat and power to be a good technology in warmer climates. You can see examples on our page

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/301659032_Model_based_design_of_a_novel_Stirling_solar_micro-cogeneration_system_with_performance_and_fuel_transition_analysis_for_rural_African_village_locations

We experiment with this decentralized solar co-generation system based on a combined cycle Stirling micro-CHP system that includes a low maintenance linear free piston Stirling engine with waste heat recovery, ideal for small business, residential or domestic solar home systems. The concentrating solar power system has been designed as a cost-effective community shared solar micro-combined heat and power unit to help enable solar energy utilization within the physical and socio-economic reality of isolated rural areas. This modular plug-and-play unit intends to serve as a stand-alone 100% renewable energy solar powerpack

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