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      A geothermal hydro wind PV hybrid system with energy storage in an extinct volcano for 100% renewable supply in Ometepe, Nicaragua

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          Renewable resources are constantly increasing their share in energy systems around the world. This paper evaluates how the capital cost of renewable technologies affects the optimal configuration and cost of energy of an isolated power system, comprising only renewable resources. HOMER software was adapted to include and simulate pumped storage hydropower and geothermal power plants. Ometepe island, Nicaragua, was selected as case study because wind, solar and geothermal resources are available, but more importantly, it has an extinct volcano with a crater lake on its top that could be used as the upper reservoir for pumped storage hydropower. When geothermal is considered, the results show that this technology is able to serve the base load of the system, reducing the required installed capacity of other resources, as well as decreasing the storage requirements and excess electricity production. When the geothermal option is not included, the low complementarity in time of the other variable resources increases the required size of the solar and wind parks , amounting to up to 6.5 times the peak power, consequently rising the cost of energy and excess electricity production. The different system configuration results demonstrated that economic aspects of renewable generation are at least as important as the natural resources availability.

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                09 July 2019
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                1907.04357
                a83157c8-ad17-4035-b13d-e37d4212897c

                http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

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                19 pages, 8 figures, 3 tables
                physics.soc-ph

                General physics
                General physics

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