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    This document discusses the transition to more renewable and decentralized energy sources in electricity networks. It notes that the traditional electricity network was centralized and power flowed in one direction from large power plants. However, there is now a motivation to transition to more renewable and decentralized sources due to environmental concerns and declining costs. Key aspects of the future network include decentralized production at or near the point of consumption, storage systems, and bidirectional power flows as renewable sources like solar and wind farms are integrated into the grid.

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    Photovoltaics

    in the Electricity Network


    Olindo Isabella PVMD
    Delft University of Technology
    Past Electricity Network
    Factory
    House
    Centralized and monodirectional
    distribution

    Utility pole
    Power plant:
    - Thermal
    - Nuclear
    - Hydro-electric Transmission line
    220 V

    Substation
    <10 kV
    Increasing distance
    50-150 kV Decreasing voltage
    ~400 kV
    Future sustainable power system

    Motivation for the transition


    • Environmental concerns
    • Increasingly lower cost of renewables €

    Main characteristics
    • Decentralized and produced on site
    • Storage systems Time
    Annual installed capacity (MW) and renewable share
    MW

    30%

    Source: EWEA, February 2016, https://windeurope.org/wp-content/uploads/files/about-wind/statistics/EWEA-Annual-Statistics-2015.pdf


    Solar Energy, a renewable source

    Annual solar
    PV plants: energy potential
    • silent 23000 TW
    • emission-free
    • low-maintenance
    • decentralized
    World
    consumption
    16 TW

    Source: S. Cloete, September 2016, http://energypost.eu/reality-check-renewable-energy-potential/


    Future Electricity Network
    Factory House

    Decentralized and bidirectional


    distribution
    Utility pole

    Transmission line
    Power plant
    Solar and wind
    Substation farms

    ~400 kV

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