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347. A facility location–allocation problem for rural electrification

Invited abstract in session WD-22: Empowering Energy Access, stream Energy Management.

Wednesday, 14:30-16:00
Room: 81 (building: 116)

Authors (first author is the speaker)

1. Ayse Selin Kocaman
Industrial Engineering, Bilkent University
2. Beste Akbas
Imperial College London

Abstract

One major impediment to developing countries’ economic growth is the lack of access to affordable, sustainable, and reliable modern energy systems. Even today, hundreds of millions of people live in rural areas and do not have access to essential electricity services. In this study, we present a planar facility location–allocation problem for planning decentralized energy systems in rural development. We consider nano-grid and micro-grid systems to electrify rural households. While micro-grids serve multiple households with a common generation facility, nano-grids are small-scale systems serving individual consumers. The households served by micro-grids are connected to the generation facilities with low-voltage cables, for which we employ a distance limit constraint due to technical concerns, including power loss and allowable voltage levels. For this problem, we provide mixed-integer quadratically constrained problem formulations and propose model-based and clustering-based heuristic approaches.

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Status: accepted


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