• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.527-532
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• 2015

In domestic island regions, the power supply generally depends on diesel generators due to difficulties of grid connection. To solve this issue, recently, the study on the stand-alone microgrid technology and its test are being actively conducted. In this paper, we propose the stand-alone microgrid integration monitoring system for energy independence island. First, we design the software architecture for monitoring of solar, wind, diesel power generation facilities, transmission and distribution of grid network, and energy storage system. Then, we implement the monitoring software that allows administrators to identify and run the monitoring software easily.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2018.07a
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• pp.171-173
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• 2018

섬이나 고립된 지역들은 디젤 발전기를 이용하여 전력 공급을 해왔다. 발전소와 송배전설비 증설에 대한 경제적 문제와 사회적 갈등이 심하기 때문이다. 최근 이러한 비용, 사회 그리고 환경 문제로 인해 에너지 자립섬에 대한 관심이 증가하고 있다. 에너지 자립섬이란, 태양광, 풍력 등 신재생에너지와 배터리를 이용해 필요한 에너지를 스스로 생산하고 사용하는 섬을 말한다. 따라서 디젤 발전기 화석연료 사용량과 유지보수 비용을 줄일 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 상위제어기에 해당하는 EMS(Energy Management System)를 이용해 디젤 발전기, 태양광 PCS(Power Conversion System)와 에너지저장장치(Energy Storage System: ESS)의 유기적인 운영으로 높은 에너지 자립률을 달성한 사례를 소개하고자 한다.

• Journal of the Korean Solar Energy Society
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• v.37 no.6
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• pp.13-24
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• 2017

Finding promising wind farm sites in islands of Korea is performed in this study. Total ten islands that have been measuring wind speed and direction using automatic weather stations for at least ten years were subjects of this study. Conditions for finding suitable wind farm sites including wind resource and various exclusion factors were applied and two islands that were found not to be suitable for wind farms were excluded. Micositing of a single wind turbine for the remaining eight islands was performed to estimate the annual energy production and the capacity factor.. Based on the simulation results, the wind farm sites selected within the eight islands were found to be suitable for wind power. The capacity factors were varied between 22.3% and 33.0% for a 100 kW wind turbine having a hub height of 30 m.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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• v.35 no.6
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• pp.631-638
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• 2022

Microgrid, which enables the production and consumption of electricity to be done independently on a small scale, has been studied on one of the solutions of reinforcement for flexibility of electronic system. This study examined the application effect of new microgrid by applying hybrid battery in electric power storage device. We designed the system to highlight the advantage of each battery and complement the disadvantage by using hybrid system with Lithium-ion battery and interval Redox flow battery. It runs with lithium-ion battery during the initial startup while the Redox flow battery operates for a long time at the end of excessive period, and it enables a discharge of Lithium-ion and Redox flow battery at the same time when the load has a large output. We chose Maldives as a subject of this study for organizing and optimizing independent microgrid. Maldives is the country to accomplish 100% domestic electricity in South Asia, but the whole electric power is supplied through diesel generation imported fossil fuel. We organized and optimized microgrid for energy independence on Malahini island to solve Maldives energy cost problem and global energy environment matters. We analyzed the daily power supply and accumulated the power supply from September 18, 2018~February 11, 2019. The accumulated power supply was about 120.4 MWh and the daily power supply was about 800~1000 kWh. Based on the collected information, we divided the cases into three models which are only diesel generator, solar generator as well as diesel generator, and solar+ESS+diesel generator. We analyzed the amount of oil consumption compared to the cost of construction and power output. The result showed that solar+ESS+diesel generator was most economically feasible. As well, we obtained that our considering hybrid battery system reduced the fuel consumption for diesel power generation about 10~15%.