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Pathways to energy autonomy - challenges and opportunities

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Abstract

The need to reduce carbon emissions calls for more use of renewable generation, particularly distributed resources. The intermittency of renewable generation, and concerns about energy security, require us to become more independent from central grid operation by use of local or regional (micro-grid) electricity systems. Distributed generation, allied to the commercial availability of battery storage products, permits this – the pathway to energy autonomy. This paper reviews the contribution of different renewable energy sources (RES), trends in energy storage technologies to enable energy autonomy, and the centralised and decentralised techniques that coordinate the associated energy management. The paper covers energy autonomy at different scales, ranging from household levels to district levels. The improvements in grid independency are measured accordingly. There is discussion of this measurement and of the

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Author(s): Bentley E, Kotter R, Wang Y, Das R, Putrus G, Van Der Hoogt J, Van Bergen E, Warmerdam J, Heller R, Jablonska B

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: International Journal of Environmental Studies

Year: 2019

Volume: 76

Issue: 6

Pages: 893-921

Online publication date: 10/09/2019

Acceptance date: 02/04/2019

ISSN (print): 0020-7233

ISSN (electronic): 1097-7104

Publisher: Routledge

URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/00207233.2019.1662219

DOI: 10.1080/00207233.2019.1662219

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