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- Title
Methodology for Monitoring Sustainable Development of Isolated Microgrids in Rural Communities.
- Authors
Rahmann, Claudia; Núñez, Oscar; Valencia, Felipe; Arrechea, Susana; Sager, Jalel; Kammen, Daniel
- Abstract
Microgrids are a rapidly evolving and increasingly common form of local power generation used to serve the needs of both rural and urban communities. In this paper, we present a methodology to evaluate the evolution of the sustainability of stand-alone microgrids projects. The proposed methodology considers a composite sustainability index (CSI) that includes both positive and negative impacts of the operation of the microgrid in a given community. The CSI is constructed along environmental, social, economic and technical dimensions of the microgrid. The sub-indexes of each dimension are aggregated into the CSI via a set of adaptive weighting factors, which indicate the relative importance of the corresponding dimension in the sustainability goals. The proposed methodology aims to be a support instrument for policy makers especially when defining sound corrective measures to guarantee the sustainability of small, isolated microgrid projects. To validate the performance of the proposed methodology, a microgrid installed in the northern part of Chile (Huatacondo) has been used as a benchmarking project.
- Subjects
MICROGRIDS; COMPOSITE indexes (Finance); SUSTAINABLE development policy
- Publication
Sustainability (2071-1050), 2016, Vol 8, Issue 11, p1163
- ISSN
2071-1050
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/su8111163