Accession Number:

AD1079944

Title:

Smart utility systems for rural electric cooperatives

Descriptive Note:

Technical Report

Corporate Author:

Naval Postgraduate School Monterey United States

Personal Author(s):

• Chen,Liwei L
• Foster,Elizabeth
• Zhang,Zihao

Report Date:

2019-05-08

Pagination or Media Count:

28.0

Abstract:

Rural communities are facing pressure to increase broadband connectivity for their residents to maintain economic growth, however, due to their low populations, broadband projects are typically not financially feasible with current investment models. The Post Road Foundation project team evaluated the financial feasibility of distributed wind and solar energy resources for Presque Isle Electric and Gas PIEG, a utility cooperative in Northern Michigan. The team identified that solar installations for Commercial and Industrial customers in the 250kW range could be financially viable due to increased array sizes and rate structure incentives. In order to further test the feasibility of solar and battery arrays for larger utility customers, the team built a long short term recurrent neural network to aid in prediction of future load profile. This load profile was used to optimize solar array and battery size to minimize capital investment costs and reduce payback periods.

Descriptors:

• Energy generating Resources
• neural nets
• optimization
• electric power
• feasibility studies
• solar energy
• wind energy

Subject Categories:

• Electric Power Production and Distribution

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE