TITLE:
Reference Islands Definition within INSULAE Project through KPIs
AUTHORS:
Laura Giménez De Urtasun, David M. Rivas-Ascaso, Noemi Galán Hernández, Giorgos Papadoupoulos, Kostas Tsatsakis
KEYWORDS:
Smart Grid, Islands, KPIs, Reference Typologies
JOURNAL NAME:
Smart Grid and Renewable Energy,
Vol.11 No.3,
March
30,
2020
ABSTRACT: Most of the isolated electrical systems throughout the world suffer from
similar problems of fragility and high dependence on external resources to generate energy. Smart Grid solutions and integration
of renewable energies in order to solve their problems have increased,
although it is necessary to know their
specific characteristics to select the optimal solutions for each case. Therefore,
as the overall objective of INSULAE Project, the development of an Investment
Planning Tool, IPT, is on the way. This paper provides a view on a
characterization methodology developed for the set of Reference Islands and how it will help to exploit the IPT developed. For
that, characterization vectors have been defined based on a selection of
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). And Reference Islands have been obtained
from the analysis of KPIs data gathered from EU islands considering the vectors
formed. The linkage of new islands to reference
islands helps provide the new islands with an assessment on the
possibility space of their investment plans with the aim of being a decarbonization plan considering the demonstrations already
evaluated.