
Today, particular attention is being globally paid towards clean and sustainable energy system. The rapid development in renewable energy technologies, growth of energy markets, and adopted financial strate. . ••A systematic framework for the optimal design of hybrid energy systems is p. . In recent decades, increasing people populations and higher technology evolution causes rapid growth in electrical energy demand. Total energy demand is expected to incre. . In order to obtain the optimal design of HRES and adequately evaluate the system performance, firstly a generic and integrated framework is developed as a decision-support. . To demonstrate the proposed framework for HRES planning design optimization, the data of specific agriculture and irrigation area in Dongola, Sudan were acquired and presented. First,. . 4.1. Techno-economic optimized results of the developed hybrid renewable energy system for DongolaBy integrating different input parameters with the involved. [pdf]
HOMER simulation results demonstrated that the optimal type of PV for Sudan is the Studer VarioTrack VT-65 with Generic PV. The utilization of a solar PV system will avoid the production of approximately 27 million kg/year of pollutants and will reduce the cost of energy to USD$ 0.08746/kWh.
Situated in the sunbelt, Sudan is one of the largest countries in Africa endowed with an extremely high solar irradiation potential. However, no work has been done in the literature with a strategic context to study specifically the feasibility of renewable energy systems in Sudan despite the abundance of solar resource.
The optimal locations found in Sudan for utilizing solar energy were Wawa, followed by Kutum, Wadi Halfa, Dongola and Al-Goled due to their low costs of electricity, high clearness index and high levels of solar radiation.
Given that Sudan is endowed with an extremely high solar irradiation potential, the government has set a target of achieving a 667 MW of PV installed capacity by the end of 2031 (Murdock et al. 2019). This clearly reflects that the latter technology will play a key role in adjusting the electricity crisis of Sudan in the near future.
The first phase of the project has been already completed with a successful reclamation of around 400 Hectare, where the existing electrical energy system is isolated from the national grid of Sudan and consisted from one standalone diesel generator, which is denoted by DG1 in this study.
The two maps demonstrate the distribution of average solar radiation and average wind speed over Sudan, whereas the average values of solar radiation and wind speed recorded around 6.5 kWh/m 2 /day and 6.0 m/s, respectively, thus they are measured as among the highest values in the world. Fig. 8.

The Islands Energy Program team hasn’t found an instance yet “where importing natural gas, diesel, propane or other fossil fuel for power generation is cheaper than the combination of solar plus storage or other renewable energy systems,” Burgess highlighted. “Solar really is the least-cost option in the Bahamas today.. . Three pillars support the program. The first is strategic planning that enables island governments, private and public-sector enterprises to undertake national clean energy transition programs. . Those characteristics led Shell to propose investing very large sums of capital to build out a 220–250-MW natural gas power plant. “It’s still early days. There’s no PPA [power purchase. [pdf]
Solar-plus-storage microgrids have offered ongoing help to provide electricity to Bahamians, prior to and since Hurricane Dorian.
Seven solar-plus-storage microgrids are live to date, Christopher Burgess, project director for RMI’s Islands Energy Program told Solar Magazine, all of which seem to be based on their locational value in terms of meeting loads islands wide.
The Bahamian government owns and manages property rooftops, parking lots and green spaces, on which solar power projects could be developed. Several projects that capitalize on that solar power potential are underway, Jones Bahamas points out.
Development of the four solar-fueled power systems will set the stage to scale the Family Islands solar program across the island chain’s outlying islands, as well as contribute to the Bahamas achieving a national goal of renewable energy resources meeting 30% of electricity needs by 2030.
On a kilowatt-hour (kWh) by kilowatt-hour basis, solar’s your best, but you need to add battery energy storage capacity in order to reach higher levels of penetration,” he noted. “Nassau’s [the Bahamas’ largest city] is a pretty big grid, and it can take a fair bit of solar without storage,” Burgess continued.
BPL Chairman Donovan Moxey was quoted in a Tribune Business news report. The Bahamas is a very difficult place to generate electricity, distribute it and sell it, even as compared to other Caribbean islands, Chris Burgess, Islands Energy Program projects director, told Solar Magazine.
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