Sustainable Energy System Planning in Developing Countries: Facilitating Load Profile Generation in Energy System Simulations

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2023-01-03
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Hart, Maria C. G.
Eckhoff, Sarah
Breitner, Michael H.
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Successful energy system planning is dependent on detailed electricity demand information. Especially in developing countries, pre-generated load profiles are often unsuitable as appliance ownership and usage vary significantly across borders, between urban and rural areas, and on household and industry levels. Synthesizing load profiles is often hindered by the inaccessibility of tools due to cost barriers, global unavailability, or required technical knowledge. As currently, no easily accessible and usable tool is available during energy system planning in rural areas of developing countries, we incorporate the open-source load profile generator RAMP into our web-based energy system simulator NESSI4Dweb+ to provide an intuitive user interface. We conduct an applicability check with self-collected data from a guesthouse in Sri Lanka, analyzing the impact of load distribution and magnitude on the economic, environmental, and reliable energy supply, that validates the artifact's relevance and ability to empower local decision-makers.
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Analytics and Decision Support for Green IS and Sustainability Applications, decision support system, developing countries, energy system simulation, load profile generation, renewable energy
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Proceedings of the 56th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
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