Renewable Power Options for Electrical Generation on Kaua'i: Economics and Performance Modeling

Technical Report · Tue Nov 01 00:00:00 EDT 2011

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1029422· OSTI ID:1029422

Burman, K; Keller, J; Kroposki, B; Lilienthal, P; Slaughter, R; Glassmire, J

The Hawaii Clean Energy Initiative (HCEI) is working with a team led by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) to assess the economic and technical feasibility of increasing the contribution of renewable energy in Hawaii. This part of the HCEI project focuses on working with Kaua'i Island Utility Cooperative (KIUC) to understand how to integrate higherlevels of renewable energy into the electric power system of the island of Kaua'i. NREL partnered with KIUC to perform an economic and technical analysis and discussed how to model PV inverters in the electrical grid.

• Research Organization: National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)
• DOE Contract Number: AC36-08GO28308
• OSTI ID: 1029422
• Report Number(s): NREL/TP-7A40-52076; TRN: US201201%%120
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION
14 SOLAR ENERGY
24 POWER TRANSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION
ECONOMICS
INVERTERS
NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY
PERFORMANCE
POWER SYSTEMS
SIMULATION
Hawaii Clean Energy Initiative (HCEI)
renewable energy (RE)
Kauai Island Utility Cooperative (KIUC)
electricity generation
PV inverters