A meta-heuristic method to design off-grid community electrification projects with renewable energies
Highlights
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Two procedures are proposed to design community electrification projects.
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A fast deterministic algorithm and a meta-heuristic procedure are developed.
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Configurations with hybrid energy systems and micro-grids are considered.
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The proposed procedures enhance solutions obtained by the existing methods.
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The improvement is proportional to the complexity of the analyzed instance.