Designing and analysis of innovative solutions for harbour area smart grid

Abstract

Nowadays, different vessel types are mostly operating on diesel generators employing cheap quality fuel, thus causing many types of air pollutions during a stay at the harbour. Thus, electrification by renewable energy based Distributed Generation (DG) and Battery Energy Storage (BES) onboard as well as on shore side are inevitably the best solution to get pollution free energy. In this regard, this paper proposes an innovative design concept of the Harbour Area Smart Grid (HASG) in such a way that it can not only supply the vessels for cold ironing purpose but also supports the hybrid vessels of future technology. The designed HASG is modelled in PSCAD/EMTDC and the simulation case studies have been carried out to validate the performance of the HASG under steady state and transient state.