How to Measure the Resilience of a Fully Renewable Multi-Vector Energy System?
Abstract
The existence of natural disasters that affect the operation of energy systems makes it necessary to consider resilience (i.e. quickly recover from faults) when planning them. Also, the participation of new renewable energy technologies is increasing and the impact of natural disasters on them has not been thoroughly studied. In arid regions as the north of Chile, the role of solar energy technologies is especially interesting as these are expected to account for a major share in the highly renewable energy systems of the future. The goal of this work is to develop a method to optimally plan a full-renewable multi-energy system (heat, power, fuels) including resilience in its design. We propose a general framework which can be applied to any energy system. Part of this framework is to define resilience indexes that can be endogenously integrated in the planning process, while ensuring computational tractability.