Improving Energy Supply Sustainability: Integrating Renewable Energy

This report explores the integration of renewable energy technologies with conventional energy systems to enhance the sustainability of energy supply. It begins by highlighting the increasing global abundance of renewable energy resources and the problems associated with conventional energy use, such as carbon emissions and global warming. The research aims to identify challenges in integrating renewable energy technologies with conventional ones to improve electricity distribution, analyzing the impacts and factors creating issues in this integration, and recommending mitigation strategies. The literature review discusses the problems in the implementation of renewable energy in the conventional energy technologies. The research methodology employs a descriptive design using secondary data from online journals, reports, and books, following a deductive approach and qualitative data analysis to address the research questions and objectives, while also acknowledging potential challenges in data collection and ethical considerations.

Integrate renewable energy technologies with conventional energy systems to
improve sustainability of energy supply systems
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Contents
1 Chapter 1:Introduction 3
1.1 Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.2 Rationale .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.3 Problem Statement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.4 Aim, Objectives and Questions .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2 Chapter 2:Literature Review 4
3 Chapter 3:Research methodology 5
4 References 6
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1 Chapter 1:Introduction
1.1 Background
The globalabundance ofthe renewable energy resources has been increasing
all over the world.The use of conventional energy resources has been creating
problems in the sustainable development ofthe society.Conventionalenergy
resources has been used for the generation of power supply in the society (Math-
iesen 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 pro-
moting use of renewable energy in the industry for generation of electricity and
power.This research study focuses on the integration of the renewable energy
with the conventionalenergy for improving the supply ofelectricity.Various
challenges in the integration will be discussed in the study.The study will help
in mitigating these issues in the integration ofthe renewable energy with the
conventional energy.
1.2 Rationale
The integration ofrenewable energy in the electricity distribution system has
been creating various problems.The technicalframeworks for the production
and distribution ofelectricity in various places (Ghaffour et al.2015). The
market liberalization have created problems in maintaining opportunities for
smalland medium-sized renewable energy resources.In the recent years,the
increase in the consumption of energy resources have been creating problem for
the sustainable development of the 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).Therefore, this
research will throw light on recommending strategies for mitigating these issues
in the integrating renewable resources in the conventionaltechnologies.The
impact of the integration of renewable resources in the conventionalresources
will be discussed in the study.
1.3 Problem Statement
The primary problem in the research has been focused on the integration of the
integration of renewable energy in the conventionalresources.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 the challenges faced in integration of the
renewable energy technologies in the conventionaltechnologies for improving
electricity distribution.The objectives of the research are as follows:
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• To identify the impact of integration of the renewable energy technologies
with the conventionalenergy technologies for improving the electricity
distribution
• To critically analyze factors creating issues in integration of the renewable
energy technologies with the conventional energy technologies for improv-
ing the electricity distribution
• To recommend strategies for mitigating these issues in integration of the
renewable energy technologies with the conventionalenergy technologies
for improving the electricity distribution
The research questions are as follows:
• What is the impact ofintegration ofthe renewable energy technologies
with the conventionalenergy technologies for improving the electricity
distribution?
• How some factors creating issues in integration ofthe renewable energy
technologies with the conventional energy technologies for improving the
electricity distribution?
• How these issues related to the impact of integration of the renewable en-
ergy technologies with the conventional energy technologies for improving
the electricity distribution can be mitigated?
2 Chapter 2:Literature Review
Electricity generating plants have been utilizing either conventionalor renew-
able 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 combus-
tion turbines,engine generators,micro turbines and fuelcells. The growth of
the distributed energy generation have been suffering from various problems in-
cluding excessive emission of carbon particles and pollution (Lund et al.2015).
The development ofthe interconnection standards and guidelines for dealing
with requests offered by the customers in the 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 ofthe 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 controland less production.The network operators in the distributed
system have been not able to maintain the power supply in the distributed sys-
tem.The development of distributed systems using the renewable technologies
have positive impact on the distribution system of electricity.
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The use ofthe solar energy for the production ofelectricity has been ex-
panding in most if he countries.This renewable energy technology have helped
in in minimizing the pressure in the use ofburning 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 ofdistribution genera-
tion in networks have been increasing the costs and benefits.The flexibility in
the generation have helped in maximizing the economic condition of the com-
panies in the sector.The integration ofthe 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 bal-
ancing 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 im-
plementation of the renewable energy technologies have been centralized in the
system.However,in competitive markets,renewable energy have been main
centralpower generation.The development ofthe 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.
3 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 willfollow a deductive approach that might help in
maintaining the focus in the aim and objectives ofthe 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 the research.The themes of
the research willbe 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 ofpaid version.Online journals after year 2012 willbe 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.
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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 ethicalconsideration.The data and information might not be published
before the completion of the research.The data and information will be secured
under the Data Protection Act 1998.All the norms including in the act will
be followed in the research study.Therefore,the research willfollow allthe
objectives and question initiated in the first of the study.
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