How can renewable energy and FEW-related infrastructure loads be modeled to optimally manage the variable energy demands associated with production of place-based food, energy, and water requirements, but also to enhance grid stability?
We will develop Energy Distribution Models for each community to optimize the control of renewable energy generation to dispatchable loads in the MicroFEWs system and test these control strategies in a full-scale microgrid laboratory.
| Status | |
| Summarize framework of model components | Completed |
| Summarize initial models based on theoretical limits | Completed |
| Summarize models with time domain additions | Completed |
| Demonstrate implementation of models using community data | Completed |
| Prepare publication(s) describing modeling components and frameworks, as well as model implementation for the communities, and identify conference(s) for presentation. | Completed |
G. Bolt, M. Wilber, D. Huang, D. Sambor, S. Aggarwal, E. Whitney. Modeling and Evaluating Beneficial Matches between Excess Renewable Power Generation and Non-Electric Heat Loads in Remote Alaska Microgrids. Sustainability, 14(7), 3884.
Energy Distribution Modeling for Assessment and Optimal Distribution of Renewable Energy for On-Grid Food, Energy, and Water Systems in Remote Microgrids. Chamberlin, M., Sambor, D.J., Wies, Jr., R.W., and Whitney, E. MDPI Sustainability, 13, 17 (2021). https://doi.org/10.3390/su13179511
Abstract Presented at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2020: Energy Resource Modelling and Analysis for Assessment of Renewable Energy Impacts on Isolated Micro-Scale Food-Energy-Water Systems using Energy-Water, Energy-Food, and Sustainable Energy Indices: Examples from Remote Alaska Communities.
Abstract Presented at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2019: Development of Energy Models with Limited Data To Optimize Use And Benefits Of Renewable Energy In Isolated Food-energy-water Systems: A Remote Alaska Community Example.
Poster presented at American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, December 2019: Use of limited data to inform renewable energy installation model scenarios for food, energy, and water systems in remote Alaska communities.
MicroFEWs – A Food-Energy-Water (FEW) Systems Approach to Renewable Energy Decisions in Islanded Microgrid Communities in Rural Alaska by Whitney E., Aggarwal S., Huang D., Wies R.W., Huntington H.P., Schmidt J.I., Dotson A.D., Karenzi J.,
Presentation at Alaska Food Policy Council, March 2019: Planting the Seeds to Examine Food Security Challenges in the Alaska Food-Energy-Water Nexus.
