Renewable energy resource management for a sustainable electricity supply for Pathum Thani Province in Thailand

Name: Kullack, Tobias

keyword: Renewable energy

; Resource management

; Sustainable

; Electricity supply

; Pathum Thani Province

; Thailand

Abstract: Nowadays the renewable energy implementation and development is being widely discussed in Thailand with its 20-Year Energy Efficiency Development Plan (2011 - 2030) and additionally the 10-Year Alternative Energy Development Plan 2012 - 2021 (AEDP 2012 – 2021), which is targeting on increasing the share of renewable energy and alternative energy uses by 25 percent instead of fossil fuels within the next 10 years. To reach such an ambitious setting target, several measures must be established with data supports from relevant feasibility studies. In this Thesis, a province is being considered as a model to evaluate the renewable energy potential and a 100 % renewable electricity supply is employed in this province. It is proposed to be a feasibility study and Pathum Thani, a province in the vicinity of Bangkok, is selected as a case study. Different scenarios are discussed and analyzed for their possibilities in terms of technical, economic and environmental aspects. This thesis strongly focus on the renewable energy potential of the Pathum Thani province in Thailand. A simulation model has been developed to simulate the hourly electricity potential of several renewable energy sources and their interaction while taking the actual electricity consumption of the province into account. Different scenarios to achieve a 100% renewable electricity production from renewable energies have been evaluated and verified with an hourly simulation, using the electricity consumption of the year 2012, solar radiation of the year 2012 and Biogas and Biomass feed stock of the year 2012. The hourly consumption and simulated production have been found to be mismatched to show possible weak points and bottlenecks of different scenarios. Furthermore the total costs, including investment costs, operation, maintenance and reinvestment costs have been considered to calculate the final electricity costs for each system respectively. To limit the scope, not every site has been measured and evaluated separately, however with the information given by the Land Development Department Pathum Thani and the ArcGis software, a good overview can be made and possible sites can be evaluated. This methodology has been used to evaluate the rooftop area for the so called Small Solar installation. However as a case study the rooftop area of the major university bodies in Pathum Thani has been evaluated using Helioscope software and then been simulated. Furthermore the discussion about agricultural products used for Biogas or being used for food supply has not been regarded as this study will focus on the technical possibility and the general requirements to fulfill the 100% renewable electricity supply. Different available land areas have been evaluated and categorized according to size, actual use and soil conditions. For the solar energy simulation, the actual radiation data from the Meteorological Department of 2012 has been implemented into a ‘PVsyst’ simulation software, in which a standard plant is used as a reference. Several scenarios inclusive a Napier grass scenario are displayed to possibly cover 100% electricity supply by renewable energies. The most optimized system appears to be a system consisting on PV Solar Large scale installations on 1/25 covering the area of the soil condition number 11 and the rest of the respective area used as Biogas feedstock by converting the paddy rice fields to Napier grass fields. The system would require the less storage capacity and the price is optimized and the costs per produced kWh inclusive of necessary storage, considering a 25 years lifetime could be 0.126 USD/kWh. The fact that the study does not consider the capacity of each individual substation but focus on the overall renewable energy potential would require a detailed and sustainable study on actual conditions and location of substations to more sustainable plan different scenarios and moreover allocate the potential and regions based on the transformer and free transformer capacity of each PEA substation

Thammasat University. Thammasat University Library

Address: BANGKOK

Email: preserv@tu.ac.th

Name: Supachart Chungpaibulpatana

Role: advisor

Created: 2015

Modified: 2021-10-14

Issued: 2021-10-14

วิทยานิพนธ์/Thesis

application/pdf

DOI: 10.14457/TU.the.2015.29

eng

DegreeName: Master of Science

Level: Master's Degree

Descipline: Engineering and Technology

Grantor: Thammasat University

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