Sustainable Energy Solution for Cold Storage Planning and Assessment

Energy is a prime commodity in the entire urbanization process across the globe. In the fabric of urbanization, Islands have major setback in energy generation, raw material transportation and grid integration due to their location constraints. Their dependencies on sea and sea products further adds storage unit issue i.e. cold storages for sustainable economic operation. Cold storages require energy supply round the clock. But, the fast pace denouement of Non-renewable energy resources across the globe leads to energy deficiency which is the major cause of concern. This work focuses on providing an optimal solution for providing continuous supply to cold storages. For case study, a location of Island has been selected and analyzed to meet continuous power demanded by the cold storages. Furthermore, there exists urge to integrate pre-existing elderly power plants with solar power plants for efficient supply. The outcome of the proposed solar power plant in terms of performance metrics like performance ratio (PR), annual energy (AE) and levelized cost of energy (LCOE) shows the feasibility of the provided solution. Typically, PR (66.33%), AE (751195KWh) and LCOE (2.02¢/kWh) respectively, manifests that the proposed power plant is a viable solution to address the aforementioned problems.