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LAPSE:2023.23390
Developing Smart Energy Communities around Fishery Ports: Toward Zero-Carbon Fishery Ports
Ateyah Alzahrani, Ioan Petri, Yacine Rezgui, Ali Ghoroghi
March 27, 2023
Air quality and energy consumption are among the top ten environmental priorities in seaports as stated by the European Sea Ports Organization. Globally, it is estimated that 15% of energy consumption can be attributed to refrigeration and air conditioning systems in fishing activities. There is a real need to understand energy usage in fishery ports to help identify areas of improvements, with a view to optimize energy usage and minimize carbon emissions. In this study, we elaborate on ways in which a simulation capability can be developed at the community level with a fishery port, using a real-world case study seaport in Milford Heaven (Wales, UK). This simulation-based strategy is used to investigate the potential of renewable energy, including local solar farms, to meet the local power demand. This has informed the development of a simulation-based optimization strategy meant to explore how smart energy communities can be formed at the port level by integrating the smart grid with the local community energy storage. The main contribution of the paper involves a co-simulation environment that leverages calibrated energy simulation models to deliver an optimization capability that (a) manages electrical storage within a district an environment, and (b) promotes the formation of energy communities in a fishery port ecosystem. This is paving the way to policy implications, not only in terms of carbon and energy reduction, but also in the formation and sustained management of energy communities.
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energy communities, Energy Storage, industry, Optimization, Simulation, smart grid
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Alzahrani A, Petri I, Rezgui Y, Ghoroghi A. Developing Smart Energy Communities around Fishery Ports: Toward Zero-Carbon Fishery Ports. (2023). LAPSE:2023.23390
Author Affiliations
Alzahrani A: BRE Trust Centre on Sustainable Engineering, School of Engineering, Cardiff University, Cardiff CF24 3AB, UK; School of Engineering, Al-Qunfudah Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah 715, Saudi Arabia
Petri I: BRE Trust Centre on Sustainable Engineering, School of Engineering, Cardiff University, Cardiff CF24 3AB, UK [ORCID]
Rezgui Y: BRE Trust Centre on Sustainable Engineering, School of Engineering, Cardiff University, Cardiff CF24 3AB, UK
Ghoroghi A: BRE Trust Centre on Sustainable Engineering, School of Engineering, Cardiff University, Cardiff CF24 3AB, UK
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Energies
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13
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11
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E2779
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2020
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2020-06-01
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1996-1073
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