IESSLA: Integrated Energy Systems Site seLection Assessment for Accelerated Business and Project Development in Off-Grid Islands

由于电网连接障碍，菲律宾等群岛国家继续应对偏远岛屿电力供应方面的挑战。目前，这些离网社区大多依赖昂贵且污染严重的柴油发电机，无法提供可靠、负担得起和可持续的能源。可再生能源技术，如太阳能光伏、风能、生物质能和潮汐能转换，准备为离网地区提供电力。随着成本下降的趋势，这些选择为私营部门在一个曾经由国家政府管理的传教电气化项目的市场上投资提供了机会。但是，个别项目地点的规模较小以及进行现场可行性研究的费用是无法吸引私人投资者的障碍。该项目旨在通过开发一种综合评估工具，减少可再生离网能源系统发展的障碍。该工具包综合了对技术经济、环境、社会、法律和地理因素的分析，以确定可行的岛屿供进一步考虑。执行详细的前端设计以验证结果并演示该工具包的应用程序。该项目汇集了Aquatera（项目管理和技术设计审查）和OceanPixel（项目开发、利益相关者管理和工程方面）的专业知识，以及菲律宾大学、西利曼大学和雅典耀达沃大学的学术合作伙伴（利益相关者参与、系统建模、可持续性评估）。根据计划，该项目将加速可持续能源系统的部署，从而提高离网社区的生活质量和生产力。随着该工具包的开发和使用，能源开发商可以降低预可行性调查的成本，并更好地将资源利用到最有潜力的地点。该项目将在菲律宾的三个岛群（吕宋岛、米沙鄢群岛和棉兰老岛）进行可行性研究，特别关注一定规模和一定人口水平的离网岛屿，在这些岛屿上，通过综合能源系统方法提供可再生能源，可以实现潜在的逐步发展，同时考虑到在拟议项目的下一阶段实施时，这种能源的生产性最终用途。该项目旨在确定每个岛群至少5个离网岛屿，可以对这些岛屿进行更详细的评估，以推动这些候选地点/项目的潜在投资和/或商业案例。

Archipelagic nations such as the Philippines continue to deal with challenges in electricity provision in remote islands due to the barriers for grid connection. Currently, most of these off-grid communities rely on costly and polluting diesel generators which are unable to provide reliable, affordable and sustainable energy access. Renewable energy technologies, such as solar photovoltaic, wind, biomass and tidal energy conversion are poised to provide electricity in off-grid areas. With the trend of decreasing costs, these options are opportunities for private sector investment in a market that was once handled by missionary electrification programs by the national government. However, the smaller scale of individual project locations and the costs of performing on-site feasibility studies are barriers that do not attract private investors.This project aims to reduce the barriers to development of renewable off-grid energy systems by developing an integrated assessment tool. This toolkit integrates the analysis of techno-economic, environmental, social, legal and geographic considerations to identify viable islands for further consideration. A detailed front-end design is performed to verify the results and demonstrate the application of the toolkit. This project brings together the expertise of Aquatera (for project management and technical design reviews) and OceanPixel (project development, stakeholder management, and engineering aspects) together with the academic partners (for stakeholder engagement, systems modeling, sustainability assessment) at University of the Philippines, Silliman University and Ateneo de Davao University .It is planned that this project will accelerate the deployment of sustainable energy systems resulting in improved quality of life and greater productivity in off-grid communities. With the development and use of this toolkit, energy developers can cut down costs on pre-feasibility surveys and better leverage their resources towards sites with greatest potential.The project will conduct a feasibility study across the 3 island groups of the Philippines (Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao) specifically looking at off-grid islands of a certain size and with a certain level of inhabitants where potential progressive development can be enabled by the provision of renewable energy through an integrated energy systems approach that also takes into consideration the productive end-use of such energy should the next phases of a proposed project be implemented. The project aims to identify at least 5 off-grid islands per island group that could be assessed in greater details to move the potential investment and/or business case for such candidate sites/projects.