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Summary

  • Established Current Demand, current Cost of electricity(COE) and current carbon emission at the Isle of Cumbrae
  • Analyzed and introduced different models to meet the demand, to reduce COE and carbon emission at the Island
  • The combination of PV and battery produced the renewable fraction around 39%.
  • The combination of PV, wind and pumped hydro storage resulted in the renewable fraction of around 98%. 
  • The COE is reduced approximately 50%, and a significant reduction in CO2 emission is resulted compared with the current system
  •  The high-level housing upgrade analysis showed a 25% reduction in the current demand.                                        

Recommended components location

Although the environmental and constructional issues related to seawater pumped hydro system and possible impacts due to wind turbine are yet to investigate, since the most of the hybrid components are close to the existing grid, we hope that majority of the construction or connection issues will sort out. Figure 1 shows the identified location of our wind turbines, the seawater pumped hydro, and other electrical systems on the Great Cumbrae along with the existing grid and current government approved Solar farm.                                                 

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Conclusions

To sum up, we are highlighting some of the key points as a result of this project on the Isle of Cumbrae.  

  • The combination of PVs, Wind turbines and Pumped Hydro Storage helps to achieve a higher renewable fraction, meanwhile, it decreases Cost of Electricity (COE) and also Carbon dioxide emission. 
  • Since most of the demand on the island is because of electric heating, housing upgrade techniques to improve the housing standard resulted in a reduction of the electrical demand, and it helped to reduce the overall cost.
  • As a result of our improvements, we expect the Great Cumbrae to become a greener island and more persuasive island to tourists.  

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75 Montrose Street
Glasgow G1 1XJ
Scotland, UK




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