Towards zero-carbon energy for remote community electrification

该NSERC联盟研究提案考虑了加拿大清洁（即脱碳）远程电气化的未来发展。基于柴油发动机的发电机是加拿大乃至世界各地偏远社区提供电力的事实上的解决方案。仅在加拿大，就有250多个偏远社区目前依靠柴油发电来提供社区电气化的基本服务。然而，由于成本大幅下降，而且市场上有无化石燃料的清洁能源，即太阳能和风力发电技术，因此人们对在偏远社区应用太阳能和风力发电技术以减少柴油消耗的兴趣增加。 拟议的研究项目广泛调查在加拿大各地偏远社区的背景下显着脱碳偏远社区电气化系统的途径。拟议的研究包括两个工作包。第一个工作包着眼于通过推进锂电池和低成本热能存储系统的组合来提高太阳能独立住宅纳米电网的可再生能源比例和性能。第二个工作包通过调查风能和太阳能的互补性，分布式低成本热存储，电费和优化的系统控制，探索社区规模微电网脱碳的更广泛机会，试图完全消除柴油燃料消耗。

This NSERC Alliance research proposal considers the future evolution of clean (i.e. decarbonized) remote electrification in Canada. Diesel-engine-based generators are the de-facto solution to for providing electric power within remote communities in Canada, and indeed around the world. In the Canadian context alone there are over 250 remote communities that currently depend on diesel-based electricity to provide what is now an essential service of community electrification. However, due to dramatic cost reductions and market availability of fossil-fuel-free sources of clean energy generation, namely solar and wind generation technologies, there is enhanced interest in applying solar and wind technologies within remote community applications to reduce diesel fuel consumption. The proposed research project broadly investigates pathways for significantly decarbonizing remote community electrification systems in the context of remote communities scattered across Canada. The research proposed consists of two work packages. The first work package looks at improving the renewable energy fraction and performance of solar powered stand-alone residential Nano-Grids by advancing towards combination lithium battery and low-cost thermal energy storage systems. The second work package explores broader opportunities for community-scale Micro-Grid decarbonization by investigating the complimentary nature of wind and solar, distributed low-cost thermal storage, electricity tariffs and optimized system controls in an attempt to eliminate diesel fuel consumption in its entirety.