Unit 44 - Control and integration of renewable energy sources

Control and Integration of renewable energy
Sources

Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
P1 Investigate about the current energy sources which demands impacts on environment........3
P2 understand about the benefits and effectiveness of renewable energy sources......................4
P3 Explore the renewable energy technologies and their costs...................................................4
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................5
P4 Describe the current solar energy efficiency measures..........................................................5
P5 Identify the main different factors which directly impact on the use of energy and
efficiency in building...................................................................................................................5
P6 Describe about the technologies that could be used to support more sustainable transport...6
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................6
P7 Demonstrate the applications of power electronics in renewable energy applications..........6
P8 Determine the industrial applications in terms of power electronic converters.....................7
P9 Understand about the power electronic converter topologies and its principles of operation.
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TASK 4............................................................................................................................................8
P10 Demonstrate the safe operation in terms of smart power system.........................................8
P11 Describe the principles of operation of standalone and grid connected renewable energy
systems.........................................................................................................................................9
P12 Identify the features of smart-grid network..........................................................................9
P13 Evaluate the importance of power electronics in smart grid and energy storage...............10
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................12
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................13

INTRODUCTION
Renewable energy is a collection of different resources which are naturally replenished on
the human timescale. It provides the proper energy in different areas such as water, heating,
electricity generations while many types of renewable energy project based on the large scale
which suited to rural and remote areas. This report will discuss about the Solar energy that
impact on the environment. there are different types of renewable energy sources and their
specific benefits for large scale projects. It will identify the various type of factor that impact on
the use of renewable energy and efficiency of building. It will describe the different technologies
that could support of sustainable transport. Furthermore, this report will describe the importance
of power electronics in smart grid and energy storage.
TASK 1
P1 Investigate about the current energy sources which demands impacts on environment.
All type of renewable energy sources have impacts on the environment such as oil, gas etc. it
substantially more harmful than the other renewable energy sources by measured through water,
air, pollution, damage of public health and global warming (Baronti, Vazquez and Chow, 2018).
It is considered the multiple renewable sources such as biomass, solar, hydropower which
directly impact on the environment in significantly. it will describe about different types of
renewable energy sources as following:
 Wind Power: It is one of common sources and more sustainable to generate electricity as
produce no other type of toxic pollution and emission of Co2. Wind energy can have
adversely impact on the environment for degrading habitat for plants, fish. The spinning
turbine can pose threat of flying wildlife.
 Solar Power: It mainly provide the tremendous resources for generating clean as well as
sustainable electricity. Solar energy impact on the environment in terms of habitat loss
and other use of hazardous materials applicable of manufacturing.
 Hydroelectric power: it including the massive hydroelectric dams which continues to
built electric energy in global world. There are lot of large-scale project done by hydro
electric renewable energy source. Hydroelectric power have a large impact on the
environment by changing condition of homes, natural habitats and use of land. It may
change the temperature of water and its flow.

P2 understand about the benefits and effectiveness of renewable energy sources.
Renewable energy help to improve the environmental quality and health condition of people
where electricity generated from hydro electric power rather than the fossil fuels which offering
economic benefits and improve public health condition. It also used to reduce the premature
mortality and emit pollutants to air (Bartolucci and et.al., 2018). Another important factor is
using the renewable energy sources that help to reduce the negative effects which associated with
the other non-renewable energy sources like natural gas.
 Solar energy has benefits for bank account and its environment where price or cost of
solar is constantly dropping. By installation of solar on home will almost save money and
lifetime facilities. It helps to reduce environmental impact by solar installation.
 Wind energy is continuously useful for utilising scale application which help for maintain
rate of pollution.
 Hydroelectric power is based on non-polluting energy and beneficial for reducing less
amount of emission. At home, more electricity uses in different devices for improving
lifestyles.
P3 Explore the renewable energy technologies and their costs.
By using renewable solar energy represents the total fraction in terms of energy consumed.
It is a leading renewable energy consumer which despite of increasing the solar over past years.
It still exists only account for 0.40 percentage used in UK. Currently, solar energy is mainly
used an efficient technology which help for converting sun energy into power. It involves solar
photovoltaic and thermal. Solar thermal is a form of collectors that easily absorb the sun
radiation in order to generate heat at home (Eissa, 2018). On the other hand, solar photovoltaic
devices use for sunlight that replace the supplement in electricity that provided through grid
system. these are important technologies used in the solar renewable energy sources for
generating a large amount of electricity power.
In early, the cost of solar system approximately $10 /watt in 2013 and their price was just
below $4. As a result, large number of photovoltaic systems installed and used for residential as
well as commercial purpose. For Example- In India due to pollution which making a plan for
expansion of solar energy of $170 billion