Integrate Renewable & Conventional Energy Systems for Sustainability

This research study focuses on integration of renewable energy with the conventional energy for improving the supply of electricity. Various challenges in the integration will be discussed in the study. The study will help in mitigating these issues in integration of renewable energy with conventional energy.

Running head: INTEGRATE RENEWABLE ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES WITH
CONVENTIONAL ENERGY SYSTEMS
Integrate renewable energy technologies with conventional energy systems to improve
sustainability of energy supply systems
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Abstract
This research has focused on the impact of integrating renewable energy technologies with
conventional energy systems to improve sustainability of energy supply systems. The problems
faced due to the consumption of renewable energy have been discussed in the study. The aim of
the research is to identify the challenges faced in integration of renewable energy technologies in
conventional technologies for improving electricity distribution.
The literature review has focused on concept of renewable energy technologies. Challenges in
current electricity distributed systems have been discussed in the study. The use of several
factors affecting integration of renewable energy technologies in the conventional resources have
been discussed in the research.
Data has been collected from secondary sources incud9ng online journals and books. The
descriptive research design has been used in this study. Data has been analyzed using qualitative
data analysis method. Themes have been created related to the renewable energy technologies
that help in thematic analysis of the data and information collected.

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Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction....................................................................................................................4
1.1 Background.......................................................................................................................4
1.2 Rationale...........................................................................................................................4
1.3 Problem Statement............................................................................................................5
1.4 Aim, Objectives and Questions.........................................................................................5
1.5 Research structure.............................................................................................................6
Chapter 2: Literature Review...........................................................................................................7
Chapter 3: Research methodology...................................................................................................9
Gantt chart.................................................................................................................................10
References......................................................................................................................................12

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Chapter 1: Introduction
1.1 Background
The global abundance of the renewable energy resources has been increasing all over the
world. The use of conventional energy resources has been creating problems in the sustainable
development of the society. Conventional energy resources has been used for the generation of
power supply in the society (Mathiesen et al. 2015). As per the survey, renewable energy
capacity in 2000 has been estimated to be 102 GW. However, in last decade, there has been huge
increase in the electricity in the society. Government have intervened for promoting use of
renewable energy in the industry for generation of electricity and power.
This research study focuses on integration of renewable energy with the conventional energy
for improving the supply of electricity. Various challenges in the integration will be discussed in
the study. The study will help in mitigating these issues in integration of renewable energy with
conventional energy.
1.2 Rationale
The integration of renewable energy in electricity distribution system has been creating
various problems. The technical frameworks for the production and distribution of electricity in
various places (Ghaffour et al. 2015). The market liberalization have created problems in
maintaining opportunities for small and medium-sized renewable energy resources.
In the recent years, the increase in the consumption of energy resources have been creating
problem for sustainable development of society. The emission of carbon particles due to the
burning of coal for generation of energy has been responsible for increase in the global warning
(Ellabban, Abu-Rub and Blaabjerg 2014).

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Therefore, this research will throw light on recommending strategies for mitigating these
issues in the integrating renewable resources in the conventional technologies. The impact of the
integration of renewable resources in the conventional resources will be discussed in the study.
1.3 Problem Statement
The primary problem in research has been focused on the integration of renewable energy in
the conventional resources. The challenges faced by the renewable energy in order to integrate
with the conventional energy for improving the electricity distribution.
1.4 Aim, Objectives and Questions
The aim of the research is to identify challenges faced in integration of renewable energy
technologies in the conventional technologies for improving electricity distribution.
The objectives of the research are as follows:
 To identify the impact of integration of renewable energy technologies with the
conventional energy technologies for improving electricity distribution
 To critically analyze factors creating issues in integration of renewable energy
technologies with the conventional energy technologies for improving electricity
distribution
 To recommend strategies for mitigating these issues in integration of renewable energy
technologies with the conventional energy technologies for improving electricity
distribution
The research questions are as follows:
 What is the impact of integration of renewable energy technologies with conventional
energy technologies for improving the electricity distribution?

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 How some factors creating issues in integration of renewable energy technologies with
conventional energy technologies for improving electricity distribution?
 How these issues related to the impact of integration of renewable energy technologies
with conventional energy technologies for improving electricity distribution can be
mitigated?
1.5 Research structure
Figure 2: Research structure
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Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Literature Review
Chapter 3: Research Methodology
Chapter 4: Data findings
Chapter 5: Data Analysis
Chapter 6: Conclusion and Recommendations

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Chapter 2: Literature Review
Electricity generating plants have been utilizing either conventional or renewable energy
resources for distribution of electricity. Different technologies have been used in order to
maintain and distribute the electricity in different areas. These technologies have been depending
in the fossil energy including combustion turbines, engine generators, micro turbines and fuel
cells. The growth of the distributed energy generation have been suffering from various problems
including excessive emission of carbon particles and pollution (Lund et al. 2015). The
development of the interconnection standards and guidelines for dealing with requests offered by
the customers in society. The distributed systems have been unable to maintain high penetration
levels of generation of risks in failure of networks. There has been several issues in the
implementation of the renewable energy in the conventional energy technologies. The existing
electric supply systems has been centralized in most of the countries. As commented by Luo et
al. (2015) centralized systems helps in supporting and unidirectional flow of electricity.
However, some problems including voltage control, reactive power control and less production.
The network operators in the distributed system have been not able to maintain power supply in
distributed system. The development of distributed systems using renewable technologies have
positive impact on the distribution system of electricity.
The use of the solar energy for the production of electricity has been expanding in most if
he countries. This renewable energy technology have helped in in minimizing the pressure in the
use of burning coals for the production of energy in the country. The distributed system can be
integrated with the solar panels that helps in minimizing the loss of the energy during
distribution of electricity (Hertwich et al. 2015). The integration of distribution generation in
networks have been increasing the costs and benefits. The flexibility in the generation have

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helped in maximizing the economic condition of the companies in the sector. The integration of
the renewable energy technologies in the conventional resources have been channelizing the flow
of electricity in the distributed system. Predictability of output has been an important part in
balancing between accurate and expected outcomes during the generation. It helps in removing
the risks involved in the production of energy from the renewable resources technologies (Dincer
and Acar 2015). The growth of the distributed energy generation have been suffering from
various problems including excessive emission of carbon particles and pollution. The use of
various strategies in implementation of the renewable energy technologies have been centralized
in the system. However, in competitive markets, renewable energy have been main central power
generation. The development of the interconnection standards and guidelines for dealing with
requests offered by the customers in the society. Various small-scale production of energy have
been generating electricity using cheaper technologies.

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Chapter 3: Research methodology
Research methodology helps in finding a scientific analysis of the path followed by the
research in order to complete the research on time. The research will use a descriptive design that
might help in providing a descriptive analysis of data and information collected from various
sources (Kammen and Sunter 2016). The data will be collected from secondary sources including
online journals, reports and books. The research will follow a deductive approach that might help
in maintaining the focus in the aim and objectives of the research. Data will be analyzed using
the qualitative data analysis method. The qualitative data analysis helps in analysis data and
information collected from online journals and books by creating themes based on the literature
review. The thematic analysis will be done focusing in the objectives of research. The themes of
research will be based on the impact of the renewable energy technologies on the conventional
resources in the distributed systems (Zhao et al. 2015).
However, there might be some challenges during the data collection process. The
researcher might not get access to all the journals available over the internet due to of paid
version. Online journals after year 2012 will be taken for the research. However, the researcher
might not find available data from the range of year. The journals might be in different language
that is not understood by the researcher (Abdmouleh, Alammari and Gastli 2015). This might
create problem in data analysis process. Therefore, data from such journals will not be provided.
Financial and time frame problem might exist in the research. The budget of the research might
be low that create difficulties in accessing advanced technologies. The timeline for the study
might not be appropriate that might create problem in completing the research on time (Das et al.
2017). The research might follow all ethical consideration. The data and information might not
be published before the completion of the research. The data and information will be secured

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under the Data Protection Act 1998. All the norms including in the act will be followed in the
research study. Therefore, the research will follow all the objectives and question initiated in the
first of the study.
Gantt chart
Task Mode WBS Task Name Duration Start Finish Predecessor
s Cost
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Scheduled 0
Integrate renewable
energy technologies
with conventional
energy systems to
improve sustainability
of energy supply
systems
90 days Wed
8/1/18
Tue
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Scheduled 1 Selection of the Topic 5 days Wed
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Scheduled 2 Collection of Data
from secondary sources 15 days Wed
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Scheduled 3 Preparing the layout 20 days Wed
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Scheduled 3.1 Review of Literature 10 days Wed
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Scheduled 3.2 Developing plan for
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Scheduled 4 Selecting appropriate
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Scheduled 4.1 Collection of
Secondary data 20 days Wed
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Scheduled 4.2 Data Analysis &
Interpretation 15 days Wed
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Scheduled 5 Findings and
Discussion 15 days Wed
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Work 7 days Mon
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Figure 1: Gantt Chart
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