A Hybrid Power Plant Based on Renewables and Electrochemical Energy Storage and Generation Systems for Decentralized Electricity Supply of the Northern Territories

The goal of this paper is to present hybrid power plant based on photovoltaic panels, wind turbine and electrochemical energy storage and generation systems for decentralized power supply of the customers located remotely in northern territories. It was shown that rechargeable electric batteries and low-temperature direct methanol fuel cells could be successfully used in extreme northern conditions instead of diesel generators. Methanol energy storage considerably surpasses accumulator batteries by its capacitance characteristics, being especially important during periods of prolonged absence of energy supply from sun and wind, e.g., under the conditions of polar night and windless weather.