Greenland off grid solar generator

Many remote Indigenous communities in the high Arctic rely on diesel or other fossil fuels for their electricity generation, yet the high cost of the imported fuel limits households’ ability to afford food and adequate h. Small coastal communities in the Arctic commonly manage energy through diesel-p. We created several mixed integer linear programming models of Qaanaaq’s energy system. Economic minimization is used to determine the new energy sources and their sizes in ord. This analysis considers scenarios of renewable energy capacity additions that vary from near-to-long-term implementation, because the price of renewable techn. Our calculations in this initial feasibility study show that inclusion of solar energy and battery energy storage may increase resilience and save money associated with electricity genera. Alyssa Pantaleo: Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Software, Investigation. Mary R. Albert: Supervision, Project administration, Funding acquisiti.