Control and Integration of Renewable Energy Sources

This report discusses the concept of renewable energy integration and its impact on the environment. It explores suitable energy foundations, advantages of renewable energy resources, and the costs associated with renewable energy technologies. The report also covers current energy and efficiency measures, factors influencing renewable energy usage in building construction, technologies for sustainable transportation services, and the application of power electronic converters in various industries.

Control and integration of renewable
energy sources

Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
P1 Investigate and discuss about the suitable energy foundations and how it can impact on ther
culture or environment.................................................................................................................3
P2 Describe the advantages and effectiveness of energy resources of renewable.......................4
P3 Explore the renewable energy technologies and their costs...................................................4
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................5
P4 Describe about the current energy and efficiency measures..................................................5
P5 Identify the important factors which directly influence the renewable energy usage and its
efficiency for building construction.............................................................................................5
P6 Discuss about the technologies that mainly useful as a sustainable transportation services..6
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................6
P7 Evaluate various application in terms of electronic power through renewable energy........6
P8 Identify the industrial application of power electric converters.............................................7
P9 Describe about the power electronic converters topologies and understand the specific
principle of operation...................................................................................................................7
TASK 4............................................................................................................................................8
P10 Analyse about the various type of safety operation which help for measuring overall smart
power system...............................................................................................................................8
P11 Discuss about the belief of processes within use of grid and standalone renewable energy
system..........................................................................................................................................9
P12 Analyse smart-grid network functionality and its features...................................................9
P13 Identify the significance of power electronic in smart grid and energy storage................10
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................11
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................12

INTRODUCTION
Renewable energy integration is a type of concept that mainly concern about the renewable
energy that useful for maintaining storage and also used modern techniques. It will be response
on the specific needs of electric in terms of distribution which always maintained overall
transmission. In this report, it will discuss about the current energy resources and greater demand
that effects on the business culture or environment that will examine its effectiveness in terms of
renewable energy. This report will describe about the different factors that impact on use of
energy and also building proper efficiency. Furthermore, it will investigate about the safe
operation of smart power system which are connected with the energy sources. However, it will
identify the significance of power electronic in smart grid and energy storage.
TASK 1
P1 Investigate and discuss about the suitable energy foundations and how it can impact on ther
culture or environment.
Renewable energy is based on the energy that can be used in the various workplaces with the
help of earth’s natural resources. These are not considered as a finite as well as exhaustible. This
type of method is also known as traditional energy which relies on fossil. It tends to be less
harmful for overall earth environment (Al-Nory, 2019). It can be categorised into two different
types in global world.
 Solar energy: it is a type of energy that can be developed through sunlight and other
changing through heat, hot water and electricity. It directly converts energy into sunlight
by using use of various solar cells.
 Wind energy: The wind farms is mainly capturing the energy through flow of wing by
using turbines which easily converting into electricity. Many organizations are used the
commercial grade wind powered because they are generating the system to maintain
supply of energy.
 Hydro electric energy: It is based on the water flow through wall’s turbines which is
mainly generated electric power. It is called as a pump storing hydropower. This type of
energy source associated with the different channel that produce the energy through
pressure of water in dam’s.

P2 Describe the advantages and effectiveness of energy resources of renewable.
Renewable energy resources are effectiveness concepts in term of environment where it
doesn’t harm directly to the global environment. It can be used the different methods to develop
the energy that useful for organizations such as power plants.
Benefits and effectiveness of solar energy
The benefits of solar energy where it performs different functionality by using sunlight
and it can be supplied limitless power in terms of solar energy (Kaygusuz, 2019). It relaying on
the solar energy rather that fossil fuel which help to improve public health as well as
environmental conditions.
usefulness and efficiency of Wind energy
Wind energy is type of energy sources which mainly generate energy through high wind
power and doesn’t pollute the environment because there are various types of harmful products
cause of environmental degradation which negatively effects on human health.
Benefits and effectiveness of hydroelectric energy
The benefits of Hydroelectric energy that become versatile and can be used for large scale
projects such as Hoover Dam. This type of energy effectiveness for controlling and managing the
large-scale project which are generating energy through source of water flows. Hydroelectric
power is not generating the pollution which is much more environmentally friendly energy
option for global world.
P3 Explore the renewable energy technologies and their costs.
The actual price or cost for renewable energy has further changed over past years because it
has increased demand in global world. As per analysis, it has found that hydroelectric power is
considered as one of cheapest in terms of renewable energy (Mehrasa and et.al., 2019). Its
average speed is $0.05 per KWtt but their actual cost of developing the power plants by
calculating through onshore winds and other type of solar photovoltaic. On the other hand, it is
the expensive sources of renewable technology in context of solar power because it gives tough
competition against the different circumstances. The price and cost of CSP plants range from
$0.10kwh to $0.26 kwh and its average approximately $0.17/kilo watthour.
It can be identified the accurate ability of various renewable energy which easily compete
against the different type of fossil fuel technologies. It is coming as an outcome which maintain

overall consistency fall within new development plants. The renewable power is one of common
backbone of other development which primary aim is to maintain sustainability.
TASK 2
P4 Describe about the current energy and efficiency measures.
Renewable current energy is main pillar of human well-being, economic development and
other type of poverty alleviation. It must ensure that everyone has sufficient access of ongoing
and pressing challenge for global development. as per analysis, it can be determined that energy
efficiency and onsite renewable programs have often advanced along with separate pathways. It
is needed to use renewable energy resources which improve efficiency and maintain the
environment (Sajadi and et.al.,2019).
The advantage of combining energy efficiency and other renewable technologies that
reduce the upfront cost by using approach. It should first minimize energy load and increasing
equipment efficiencies. By improving the energy that make renewable energy project which are
more affordable and attractive in terms of financing sources. There are different programs help to
measure the energy efficiency.
 Resources standards: it can be used for building coordination with the energy efficiency
resources that can drive to the lower energy demand and utilising renewable energy
resources.
 Zero energy homes and Buildings: it must be utilising the high efficiency appliances for
building particular materials and used as renewable energy resources like solar
photovoltaic.
P5 Identify the important factors which directly influence the renewable energy usage and its
efficiency for building construction.
The potential of building sector that contribution towards the reduction of energy
consumption and CO2 emission has rapidly increasing which recognised. The factors must be
influencing the energy consumption of building and consider as an essential for improving better
understanding towards energy conversation. There are different factors that influencing building
energy efficiency and consumptions.
 Climate: It act as a building which separating the indoor built environment from the
external climate. In this way, it has increased the energy demand and influenced by
different climate parameters (Suntio and Messo, 2019). The temperature is important

sources which considered as a strongest influence on the heating demand of energy at
summer times.
 Socio_economic: it is another factor that inspire to use of renewable energy because it
always influencing the acceptance of energy efficiency and its measurements. Income is
very important factors that affecting on use of energy but it requires to aware about the
environmental issues. It also identified that rational combination of electricity rates and
primary heating source could help to minimize energy consumption (Venkatesan and
Govindarajan, 2019). On the other hand, in building where people adopt the energy
efficiency and investment. It may influence the adoption to understand about use of
innovation which increase rate of efficiency.
 Legal: It play important role for building in terms of sustainable development that must
follows various type of regulation. The primary aim is to reduce use of energy appliances.
Building and machinery such as energy efficiency standards. The building related energy
would be preferred to energy with the tool that can improve energy efficiency which
minimizing consumption of energy in buildings.
P6 Discuss about the technologies that mainly useful as a sustainable transportation services.
Sustainable transportation is mainly referred as a subject of transportation because it is
sustainable in the sense of climate, environment or social impacts. It also evaluates the overall
sustainability and exits in usage of cars for air, water and road. These are different energy source
which used to develop infrastructure and accommodate for purpose of transport.
Transportation is main core component that supporting interactions and development of different
socio-economic system. It has been the objects as much consideration about the develop
sustainable development (Worku, Hassan and Abido, 2019). In terms of advance technology, Car
sharing technologies are most suitable approach that help for self-driving vehicles which
underline as much more sustainable usage of different transportation vehicles. Ongoing
improvement technology always reduced the emission of CO2 which protect on the environment.
It is mainly used the substantial growth of raw materials that being traded in the global economy.
TASK 3
P7 Evaluate various application in terms of electronic power through renewable energy.
Power electronic technologies are widely used in term of renewable energy system that
mainly including hydro power, biomass, solar photovoltaic, wave and tidal etc. these are

different type of energy that will be applicable in proper manner. It has required to maintain
distribution of energy resources with certain type of electronic technology which make them in
useful.
Hybrid renewable energy power system is a type of position elements that become suitable for
long term management of transportation as well as stationary system applications. It also virtual
limitless in different possible steps and well configured to generate the desirable electric energy
(Yahoui, Vu and Tran, 2019). The electric output and result of particular power which may give
an appropriate input that required for multiple devices. It can be used power converters in which
control regulation and handle an appropriate amount of current flowing by using circuits.
The energy conversion efficiency with the fuel cell which is highest various energy sources
that may consider as future energy resources in different applications such as portable power,
transportation and stationery.
P8 Identify the industrial application of power electric converters.
Power electric converters are based on the electronic circuits that uses for purpose of
energy conversion. It mainly converts electrical energy into the suitable load in terms of voltage,
suitable frequency as well as amplitude. On another words, it is type of electrical and electro-
mechanical devices that always help for converting into electrical energy. For Example-
Uninterruptible power supply is made with two different stages, AC to DC which makes DC
voltage. Batteries also connected and followed by DC to AC. In this way, it supplies the load
among many hardware devices (Yu, Zeng and Ning, 2019).
For purpose of industrial, the most common application of power electric converters is
variable speed drive that help to control overall induction motors. It supplies the power range
that start from hundred watt and end megawatts. It may include different applications such as
heating applications, welding, cranes and other emergency power systems.
P9 Describe about the power electronic converters topologies and understand the specific
principle of operation.
The converters are mainly based on the switch mode of circuits that useful for distributing
the power into different electrical system through semiconductor switches. It can be either AC
and DC.
 DC/DC Converters: this type of topology which converts DC into DC. It is also called
switching regulator. it useful for changing the circuit by level of voltage that available

from direct current sources. It including solar cell, battery and fuel cell to other type of
DC level. It can be either to flowing amount the direct load and also usage for
intermediates voltage through electronic converters. Its converters coupled together with
AC/DC which enables the proper use of high voltage DC for purpose of transmission. It
easily adopted the transmission line.
 DC/AC Converter: It is basically described the inverters for converting the actual source
DC into other sinusoidal AC voltage which supply AC load. Sometimes, it can be divided
into different types of DC devices establish connection to grid. It is similar to DC/DC
converters (Yu, Zeng and Ning, 2019). It has significant sources through fuel cell, battery
and solar cell.
 AC/DC converter: it is a type of rectifier converter that usually applicable in the AC
input to circuit which based on the sinusoidal voltage sources. It operates at 50Hz, 120v
and so on. It is directly used to supply the power of DC resistive load. A rectified is
considered as a front-end circuit in term of power system applications.
 AC/AC Converter: It is becoming more complicated than other type of converters
because of their AC conversion. It requires to change frequency, voltage and other
blocking capabilities. Generally, it considers as a complex device topology. In terms of
applications, it may include the light dimmers and controlled the single-phase AC motors.
It is mainly used in home appliances.
TASK 4
P10 Analyse about the various type of safety operation which help for measuring overall smart
power system.
Smart power system is a type of services that based on the electricity network innovation
and also concern about the provision of power supply, commissioning services, development and
supply of energy system. currently, electric power system faces the radical transformation in
global world that must supply electric and also replace aging their assets. It also useful for
controlling the natural resources with new information (Yu, Zeng and Ning, 2019).
The power smart system has performed different operations such as power factor
performance, transformer status, security etc. it must consider all type of factors to perform
operations that transform voltage at several locations. It providing the reliable delivered energy
and also maintain safety. It is needed the smart substations for splitting the overall path of

electricity into various directions. It has required the large substations and expensive equipment
to operate. It mainly includes switches, network, circuit breakers and other several others. There
are some common applications of smart power system such as customer care and business,
distributed generation and storage and monitoring the assets.
The safe considerations that should be determined in the design pattern of smart power
system equipment which are particularly use in low voltage AC applications and operating below
1000 volt. It also recognised the smart technology which easily merger with the power
generations. For Example- smart application and consideration of safety maintain in proper
manner. Afterward, it points out the safety issues with their localized electric power generation
system.
P11 Discuss about the belief of processes within use of grid and standalone renewable energy
system
It is one of system that mainly working in the storage for utilise energy through solar panel
it may generate high electricity rather than house where it is mainly used surplus power. With
grid connect with the renewable solar power which require more power so that it become easier
for balancing the proper electricity supply (Yu, Zeng and Ning, 2019). Grid connect system has
performed the significant operation that convert direct electricity which produced by renewable
energy sources such as solar panel.
A stand-alone solar system is not directly connected with grid but instead of use to charge
batteries where it can store more power and produced by the solar panels. A stand-alone system
has been used for long time because it properly maintains entire process within particular range.
It doesn’t need to require the public grid. Standalone and grid are more expensive in market but
in future, it can see a fall in price of batteries and used the stand-alone system.
standalone perform principle operations to generate the reports of monitoring on daily
basis which provide information of third parties roles in overall system monitoring. It may be
beneficial to improve overall performance and efficiency in proper manner.
P12 Analyse smart-grid network functionality and its features
Smart grid network is a type of generic label for application in terms of computer
intelligence. It has an ability to dumb the distribution of electricity system. it initiatives seek to
improve the overall performance of network system. It is making planning and maintenance for

ensuring the components of electric grid. For Example- Internet of things is the most important
entity that imaginable that can be outfitted with the unique identifiers. There are different types
of features within smart grid and useful for communicating with each other. It also utilising the
existing infrastructure and adding more functionality.
 Meters: it is a type of feature that exits in the smart grid technology where it useful for
analysing, measuring and constantly maintain the data communication. It also beneficial
for easily collecting information from multiple locations. This type of advanced metering
infrastructure connected with the devices that may allow for occurs two-way
communications.
 Standards and security: it is an important feature that mainly focused on the designed
pattern which help to reduce the security risk. It is basically used in the industrial which
easily collaborated to assemble with large standards and procedures, mechanism.
Different type of equipment establishes the connection with other electric power system
for maintaining communication between them (Worku, Hassan and Abido, 2019).
 Stability: Smart grid network including the series of features that designed to improve
overall stability. It is helping to overall network that seeks of balancing the supply cross
grid. It can perform different action that recognise pattern and identify condition of grid
network which help to analyse overall functionality. In this way, it has maintained the
connection between devices and protocols in entire network system.
P13 Identify the significance of power electronic in smart grid and energy storage.
The power electric is reliable in terms of supply that has become priority of consumers
which help for developing the countries., Through smart grid implementation, it also performing
significant action such as distribution, monitoring, real time measurement, transmission and
control of electric energy. It only possible to improve the power electric supply in proper
manner. Smart Grid has potential to minimize the carbon emission by renewable current energy
sources.
 Power electronic will be used in the regulator to control the voltage on various
distribution. It also boosting the voltage of line through var generating.
 In smart grid technology, it also implementing the power electronic devices that reliable
for controlling overall power supply and also maintain the smooth integration of
renewable energy sources (Worku, Hassan and Abido, 2019).

 Smart grid mainly allows the consumer to participate active role in terms of supply
electricity which can use the system to respond of failure equipment and also identifies
emergency. At that time, the operator can maintain the enough excess and generating the
capacity of online.
CONCLUSION
In above discussion, it has summarised about the renewable energy integration which are
main part of improving quality of services and also incorporating renewable energy which
distributed the generation, storage and activated technologies. In this report, it will discuss about
the current energy resources and greater demand that effects on the business culture or
environment that will examine its effectiveness in terms of renewable energy. There are different
factors that impact on use of energy and also building proper efficiency. Furthermore, it also
analyses about the safe operation in term of smart power system which are connected with the
energy sources. However, it can be determined the significance of power electronic in smart grid
and energy storage

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