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@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ title = "BEACON"
date = 2022-03-01
authors = ["Aron Petau"]
description = "Decentralizing the Energy Grid in inaccessible and remote regions"
banner = "/images/india_key_monastery.jpg"
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@ -51,11 +51,11 @@ The goal was to work on one of the 17 UN-defined sustainable development goals
Worldwide, an estimated 1 billion people have no or insubstantial access to the grid.
Some of them live here, in the Key Monastery in the Spiti Valley at around 3500 meters altitude.
![key monastery](/assets/images/india_key_monastery.jpg)
![key monastery](/images/india_key_monastery.jpg)
<iframe src="https://www.google.com/maps/embed?pb=!1m18!1m12!1m3!1d843.1304298825468!2d78.01154047393467!3d32.2978346!2m3!1f0!2f0!3f0!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!3m3!1m2!1s0x3906a673e168749b%3A0xf011101a0f02588b!2sKey%20Gompa%20(Key%20Monastery)!5e0!3m2!1sen!2sde!4v1647009764190!5m2!1sen!2sde" width="500" height="500" style="border:0;" allowfullscreen="true" loading="lazy"></iframe>
![tashi gang](/assets/images/tashi_gang.jpg)
![tashi gang](/images/tashi_gang.jpg)
This is Tashi Gang, a village close to the Monastery. It houses around 50 people and only has road access during 3-4 months in the summer. For the rest of the time, the people rely on first aid services by helicopter, which can only be called with a working cell phone tower.
@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ The smart grid operator boxes available here in Germany cost several hundred, wi
## Research
![The Electricity layout of the Key Monastery](/assets/images/Key_Monastery_Spiti.png)
![The Electricity layout of the Key Monastery](/images/Key_Monastery_Spiti.png)
## Data Collection
@ -105,8 +105,8 @@ In general, the uninformed openness to delaying usage of electricity on a scale
## Simulation
After collecting all the estimated electric appliances of the local population, I simulated the use of 200 Solar Panels with 300Wp each, once for simultaneous electricity use, and once for mitigated electricity peaks through smart optimization and electricity usage delay.
![SAM Simulation of a local solar system ](/assets/images/sam_sim.png)
![SAM Simulation Optimized](/assets/images/sam_sim_opt.png)
![SAM Simulation of a local solar system ](/images/sam_sim.png)
![SAM Simulation Optimized](/images/sam_sim_opt.png)
Although solar is definitely not the optimal choice here and generates lots of issues with energy storage and battery charging at negative degrees, we figured that this was the way to go for the project.
And as you can see, optimizing peak usage can improve solar from generating only one-fifth of the demand in winter to about half the demand in winter. Keeping in mind here, that the added solar farm was only intended to supply additional energy and not replace existing solutions, such a "small" farm would be a real lifesaver there and optimize the limited space in extremely mountainous terrain.