Integrated Biomass and Solar Town Concept for Smart Eco-Village

Abstract

Integrated biomass solar town concept is a concept which encourages local community to utilize biomass waste comprehensively with strong ties between community and local stakeholders. This paper discusses about an Integrated Biomass Solar Town for eco village with and without load shifting (LS). On the other hand, the energy storage (ES) is also incorporated which could help cut electricity demand during peak periods and smoothing variations in power generation by variable solar power. A substantial technical and economic benefit was achieved through the implementation of integrated (LS) and ES. In this study, LS is used mainly to increase demand during periods of high supply and also shift the load to interval with low demand hence reduce the size of ES significantly. The concept is one of the great initiatives to spur economic growth and environmental protection through energy efficiency improvement and deployment of low-carbon technologies.