Integration of Renewable Energy-Based Systems for Transport Sector in 2050; a Case Study in Iran

The recent studies have shown that the integration of power generation, seawater desalination, and industrial gas production can significantly reduce costs and generate clean energy on a large scale. On the other hand, by the growth of population, transportation has been known as a major consumer of fuel and energy leading to a higher energy demand, increased total costs, and more pollutant components. In this work, the effect of merging the transportation sector to the integration system on energy production and total costs by 2050 in 5 -year time steps is investigated based on an the optimization method and a linear model simulation. The modeling is under three scenarios: a) integrated scenario, b) current policy scenario, and c) combined integrated scenario. Renewable systems are considered to be the energy suppliers of power generation, seawater desalination, industrial gas, and transportation sectors. The results show that the addition of the transportation sector has a significant effect on reducing the final cost from 41 euro/MWh to 36 euro/MWh, which is attributed to the increased generated energy and the severe price drop of power generation technologies as a result of this merging. Also the share of various renewable technologies in energy generation show that in the combined-integrated scenario, the share of revenues, especially solar PV, is increased 2% from the integrated scenario. The results reveal that the installation capacity has a 32% growth compared to the integrated scenario, and 90% compared to the CPS scenario.

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Recent studies have shown that integrating power generation, seawater desalination, and industrial gas production can reduce costs and generate clean energy on a large scale. The addition of the transportation sector to the integration system has a significant effect on reducing costs and increasing the share of renewable energy in the energy generation.