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AbstractThis paper, prepared by a special task force of the generation (DG) systems in grid-connected or standalone
IEEE PES Renewable Technologies Subcommittee, is a review of configuration. FC and MT could also be considered renewable
hybrid renewable/alternative energy (RE/AE) power generation power generation sources if their input fuel is obtained from
systems focusing on energy sustainability. It highlights some
important issues and challenges in the design and energy manage- renewable sources. For instance, landfill gas has been used
ment of hybrid RE/AE systems. System configurations, generation to fuel MT, biomass can be gasified into Syngas and used as
unit sizing, storage needs, and energy management and control fuel for MT and FC, or hydrogen fuel can be generated using
are addressed. Statistics on the current status and future trend of wind- or PV-generated electricity (through an electrolyzer) for
renewable power generation, as well as some critical challenges FC. Though not renewable, diesel generators and reciprocating
facing the widespread deployment of RE/AE power generation
technologies and vision for future research in this area are also engines are also still commonly used for a wide range of power
presented. The comprehensive list of references given at the end applications, particularly in remote areas, and as backup energy
of the paper should be helpful to researchers working in this area. sources in some standalone systems such as a power source
Index TermsEnergy management, energy storage, generation for a remote telecommunication tower. The diesel engines
unit sizing, hybrid energy systems, renewable power generation. mature technology, relatively cheaper price, low fuel cost, and
high fuel efficiency have kept diesel generators in the market.
They are also reasonably fuel tolerant and can be considered
I. INTRODUCTION renewable power sources when fueled by renewable fuels such
as bio-fuel.
T HIS century is expected to witness unprecedented growth
and challenges in power generation, delivery, and usage.
Environmentally friendly (renewable and clean alternatives)
In general, the key drivers for the deployment of the above
energy systems are their perceived benefits, such as reduced
carbon emission, improved power quality and reliability, and in
power generation technologies will play an important role in
some cases, combined heat-and-power (CHP) operation (e.g.,
future power supply due to increased global public aware-
for MT and FC), which will increase their overall system effi-
ness of the need for environmental protection and desire for
ciency significantly.
less dependence on fossil fuels for energy production. These
In the past half century, extensive research has been con-
technologies include power generation from renewable energy
ducted in the RE/AE area worldwide, including feasibility
(RE) resources, such as wind, photovoltaic (PV), micro hydro
studies, computer modeling, control, and experimental work,
(MH), biomass, geothermal, ocean wave and tides, and clean
e.g., [1][15]. As a result, the use of wind and PV power gener-
alternative energy (AE) power generation technologies [such as
ation has become a reality and extensive work is underway on
fuel cells (FCs) and microturbines (MTs)]. RE/AE generation
other RE/AE generation technologies such as ocean wave and
sources often come in the form of customized distributed
tides, osmotic, geothermal, FC, and MT. Much work is also
needed on the more mature technologies and associated energy
Manuscript received September 18, 2010; revised January 06, 2011; accepted
storage schemes to improve their operational performance and
March 29, 2011. Date of publication May 27, 2011; date of current version
September 21, 2011. reliability.
M. H. Nehrir is with Montana State University-Bozeman, Bozeman, MT Because of the intermittent nature of many RE resources
59717 USA.
(e.g., wind, solar, ocean wave), hybrid combinations of two or
C. Wang is with Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202 USA.
K. Strunz is with Technical University of Berlin, Berlin 10587, Germany. more of their relevant power generation technologies, along
H. Aki is with AIST, Tsukuba, 305-8569, Japan. with storage and/or AE power generation, can improve system
R. Ramakumar is with Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK 74078
performance. For example, wind and solar energy resources in
USA.
J. Bing is with NEO Virtus Engineering, Inc., Littleton, MA 01460 USA. a given area are somewhat complementary on a daily and/or
Z. Miao is with the University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620 USA. seasonalbasis.Ingeneral,hybridsystemsconvertalltheresources
Z. Salameh is with the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, MA 01854 USA.
into one form (typically electrical) and/or store the energy into
Color versions of one or more of the figures in this paper are available online
at http://ieeexplore.ieee.org. some form (chemical, compressed air, thermal, mechanical
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/TSTE.2011.2157540 flywheel, etc.), and the aggregated output is used to supply
and their sizes for specific applications. For example, with the as high-power and/or high-energy types depending on their de-
aid of HOMER software, developed at the National Renewable sign. However, in general, their cycle life of charge/discharge
Energy Laboratory (NREL) [47], a hybrid RE/AE system can is shorter than the high-access energy storage devices explained
be designed; and with the aid of the Distributed Energy Re- above.
source-Customer Adaption Model (DER-CAM) software, de- A promising capacity-oriented energy storage technology is
veloped at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBL) [20], the flow battery. In conventional batteries, chemical energy is
[48], optimal technology selection for hybrid systems (to op- stored in reactants, placed near the electrodes inside the bat-
erate as independent microgrids) can be achieved. tery cell, but in flow batteries, chemical energy is stored in
Unit sizing and technology selection can sometimes be as the electrolyte solutions stored in two tanks outside the bat-
straightforward as meeting certain simple requirements such as tery cell stacks. As the solution is pumped to circulate from
using the available generation technology and not exceeding one storage tank, through a cell stack, to the second tank, ion
the equipment power rating, or it can be as complex as sat- exchange takes place through the cell porous membrane, and
isfying several constraints and achieving several objectives to electrons flow through the load to generate electrical power.
maximum extent at the same time. Normally, based on avail- Several different flow battery chemistries have been developed
able statistical information about generation, load, financial pa- for MW/MWh-level utility applications [58], [59]. The avail-
rameters (e.g., interest rate), geographic factors, desired system able electrolyte chemistries include zinc-bromine flow batteries
reliability, cost requirements, and other case-specific informa- (ZBFB) and vanadium redox batteries (VRB). Other chemistries
tion, generation technologies and their sizes can be optimized to are under development.
satisfy specific objective functions, such as minimizing environ- An advantage of flow batteries is that their power and en-
mental impact, installation and operating costs, payback periods ergy capacity can be designed independently. A battery power
on investment, and/or maximizing reliability. Power system op- rating can be increased by increasing the cell area where en-
timization methods such as linear programming (LP) [49], in- ergy conversion takes place, i.e., by increasing the number of
terior-point-method (IPM) [50], and heuristic methods such as cell stacks, while its energy capacity can be increased by using
genetic algorithms and particle swarm optimization (PSO) can larger volume of electrolyte solutions in larger tanks. Further-
be used for component sizing and energy management of hybrid more, flow batteries can be stored and shipped completely dis-
RE/AE systems [51][56]. These techniques are especially at- charged as the reaction only takes place when the electrolyte
tractive when multiple objectives are to be met, some of which circulation pumps are turned ON.
may be conflicting, e.g., minimizing cost, maximizing system Conventional lead-acid batteries are the least expensive for
availability and efficiency, and minimizing carbon emission. hybrid energy system applications, but they suffer from a low
cycle life. Nickel metal hydride (Ni-MH) batteries and those
C. Storage with sodium sulfur (NaS) chemistry offer significant improve-
ments over lead-acid batteries. Popular commercial applications
1) Storage Diversity: Storage technology is critical for en- for Ni-MH batteries have included usage in hybrid electric ve-
suring high levels of power quality and energy management hicles (HEVs) and distributed RE systems. NaS batteries have
of stationary hybrid RE systems. The ideal storage technology been used in Japan in distributed energy systems and to firm
would offer fast access to power whenever needed, provide high up wind energy in the grid on a large scale, up to 34 MW of
capacity of energy, have a long life expectancy, and is available power and 245 MWh of energy [60]. The operating tempera-
at a competitive cost. However, there is no energy storage tech- ture of NaS batteries is of the order of 300 C to 350 C, which
nology currently available that can meet all these desirable char- does not make them attractive for mobile applications. This is in
acteristics simultaneously. In this section, the different types of contrast with zincbromine batteries that operate near ambient
energy storage devices and systems are covered without going temperature.
into the details of operation of any specific device. The opera- With increasing interest in electric vehicles, the development
tional performance and applications of energy storage devices of lithiumion batteries has received a significant boost. They
for advanced power applications (also, equally suited for hybrid can be well designed as high-power or high-energy batteries.
RE/AE power generation system applications) are, for example, While this is also possible for other battery chemistries, the
discussed in [27] and [28]. Liion type allows reaching particularly high power-to-weight
2) Storage Types: In analogy to data storage in computer en- or high energy-to-weight densities. Compared with other com-
gineering, a classification in terms of access and capacity orien- mercially available batteries, conventional Liion batteries
tation may also be considered for energy storage [57]. Among excel in performance with the exception of cost and life ex-
the different types of storage given in Table I, supercapacitors, pectancy. Since the cost is relatively high, the main interest
flywheels, and SMES offer fast access to the stored energy, relates to mobile applications. Through the vehicle-to-grid
have a very high cycle life of charge and discharge operations, (V2G) concept, Liion batteries are expected to appear as
and very high round-trip efficiency on the order of 95%. How- active resources in distribution networks [61].
ever, the cost per unit of stored energy is also very high. There- Hydrogen can serve as an energy carrier for capacity-ori-
fore, all three technologies can be classified as access-oriented ented energy storage. Hydrogen may be produced through elec-
and support power quality. The usage of SMES can here only trolysis, where water is split into its component parts of hy-
be economically justified for applications involving compara- drogen and oxygen. The electrolysis can be powered from re-
tively high levels of power. Batteries could also be classified newable sources. Hydrogen may also be derived through steam
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TABLE II
CLASSIFICATION OF STORAGE FOR HYBRID ENERGY SYSTEMS
TABLE III
EXAMPLE APPLICATIONS OF HYBRID SYSTEMS AROUND THE WORLD [85][97]
and a hydrogen engine supplies power to the island resi- through electrolyzers. The generated hydrogen is stored
dents [85], [86]. in high pressure storage tanks and can be used both as a
2) Kahua Ranch, Hawaii Hydrogen Power Park, USA: This transportation fuel and as an energy storage medium [94].
hybrid wind-PV-electrolyzer-FC energy system was ini- Table III gives a list of components (generation sources, etc.)
tially developed as a part of Hawaii Hydrogen Power and their capacity, storage type, integration scheme (bus types,
Park program for technology validation and research. The ac/dc/hybrid), and control paradigm (central, distributed, or hy-
system provides emission-free electricity to Kahua Ranch brid) used in each project. Central control paradigm is applied to
located on the Hawaii Island [87]. all projects except the Kythnos Island Project in Greece, where
3) Starkenburger Lodge, Austria: A completely off-grid hy- droop control is applied for load sharing among the PV inverters
brid PV-storage system, including a CHP-based engine, of the system. The fast response function of the hybrid systems
supplies the power demand of the remote Alpine Lodge is realized either by access-oriented energy storage devices or
in the Austrian Alps [88]. by fast-acting controllable generators.
4) Fuel cells and Energy Networks of Electricity, heat, and In 2008, the U.S. DOE awarded nine renewable and
hydrogen, Japan (Project NEXT 21): More than 5000 distributed system integration (RDSI) projects aimed at mod-
PEMFCs (fueled by natural gas) were installed in resi- ernizing the U.S. utility grid [95]. In addition, there are many
dential households on an experimental basis by the end of active microgrid demonstration projects around the world inte-
2009. The PEMFC units provide electricity and hot water grating RE/AE and conventional energy sources. The detailed
to the households [89][91]. descriptions of several such projects appear in [96] and [97].
5) The Kythnos Island microgrid project, Greece: The system
is a single-phase PV-storage-diesel-engine microgrid in-
stalled on the island to provide uninterruptible power to V. CHALLENGES AND VISION FOR THE FUTURE OF RE/AE
the island residents. The system is used to test centralized POWER GENERATION TECHNOLOGIES
and decentralized control and power management of the In this section, a partial list of challenges facing the wide-
microgrid in islanded mode [92]. spread deployment of RE/AE power generation technologies
6) The Hachinohe microgrid project, Japan: The purpose of and future visionary research areas are presented.
this renewable-energy-based microgrid, built in the urban
city of Hachinohe, is to investigate its grid integration and
A. Challenges
stabilization, as well as control and reliable operation in
islanded mode [93]. Despite their significant benefits to the environment and great
7) Wind2H2 Project, National Wind Technology Center long-term potential for sustainable energy development, hybrid
(NWTC) at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory RE/AE systems are currently in an economic disadvantage posi-
(NREL), USA: The Wind2H2 system was initially ap- tion because of their high installation costs compared with tra-
proved for demonstration operation in March 2007. The ditional electricity generation technologies. In the majority of
system produces hydrogen directly from RE sources cases, the incentives from federal and state governments and
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local utilities are necessary to make a hybrid system economi- 4) Excitonic Solar Cells: This class of solar cells uses Ti-
cally viable, which, in turn, makes the incentive policies so crit- tania nanotube arrays [111], [112], and shows considerable
ical to the widespread deployment of such systems [98]. promise to harness a larger fraction of the solar spectrum.
Energy storage is necessary for standalone hybrid RE/AE The availability of this class of devices should be closely
systems to have continuous, reliable power supply with desired monitored for potential use in RE/AE systems.
power quality. Energy storage is also one of the enabling 5) Nanotechnology: In general, the application of nanotech-
technologies to accommodate grid-scale renewable generation nology to improve various components of hybrid systems
sources into power systems at high penetration. Among the dif- should be a constant topic of research and investigation.
ferent energy storage techniques discussed in Section II-C, only 6) Hydrogen: Last but not least, the production of hydrogen
pumped hydroelectric storage and underground CAES are the and hydrogen economy should be a constant future re-
two technologies which can provide a competitive system cost search topic. A breakthrough in this area could revolu-
[99]. However, they are heavily geographically constrained and tionize the way we live.
only suitable for large grid-scale energy storage applications.
On the other hand, batteries are the most common energy
storage technologies for distributed hybrid RE/AE systems. VI. CONCLUSION
Though the requirement of energy density and specific energy This paper provides a summary of available approaches and
are not so critical to stationary energy storage applications, those currently under research for optimal design of hybrid
system cost and durability are still the key barriers for battery RE/AE energy systems. Different approaches for system con-
storage systems. Moreover, it is a very challenging task to accu- figuration, unit sizing, and control and energy management of
rately gauge and estimate the state of charge (SOC) and state of hybrid systems are presented. Current status and future trends
health (SOH) of batteries [100][105], in particular, as electric of RE Power Generation, the challenges facing the widespread
vehicles are being put on the road around the world. Therefore, deployment of RE/AE systems, and research vision for the
new battery technologies deserve more research attention and future of RE/AE power generation technologies have been
efforts to improve their durability and performance, and lower discussed. The comprehensive list of references at the end of
their cost. the paper is aimed to help interested researchers in the design
and power management of hybrid RE/AE energy systems with
focus on energy sustainability.
B. Vision for the Future
A partial list of the future research topic areas, which can im- ACKNOWLEDGMENT
pact RE/AE power generation and management, is given below:
The authors wish to acknowledge the valuable contributions
1) Energy Management and Standardization: As the deploy-
of Dr. Z. Jiang to the Control and Energy Management part of
ment of hybrid RE/AE systems in the form of independent
the paper and his input to the general structure of the paper. The
microgrid increases, the need for real-time energy manage-
help and comments provided by C. Colson and A. Pourmousavi
ment of such systems, and robust communication between
(Ph.D. students in the Electrical and Computer Engineering De-
the individual energy sources of the microgrid, become
partment at Montana State University) during the preparation of
important tasks and, therefore, deserve further attention.
the paper is also acknowledged.
Furthermore, systematic approaches and standardization,
e.g., IEEE Standard 1547 [106] and IEC 61850 [107],
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