USING THE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES INTO ENERGY SYSTEM

Abstract

Nowadays the energy of gas, oil or coal is the integral component of the technology to create comfortable living conditions in modern cities, thus, their safety is a priority for every modern human. Today the fact that the world's energy resources are limited is indisputable. Experts estimate, that modern planetary energy, a lot of which is concentrated in the cities, absorb fuel resources million times faster than nature produces them. The problem of limited energy resources and their wasteful usage becomes more important from year to year. The primary energy resources are essentially used for production of two types of energy: heat and electricity. In Ukraine, as in the whole world, more than 40% of the primary energy is consumed in non-industrial buildings (houses, schools, hospitals, etc.). This is the largest sector of the energy consumption of the national economy. Long and fruitless search for the ways of reforming housing and communal services in Ukraine today are largely linked to the inefficiency of energy using in buildings.
No surprise, that one of the most obvious ways of resources saving is considered to be the use of the renewable energy sources (RES). Today there are several ways to obtain renewable energy, which are different due to the type of source. Big Energy Complexes of Ukraine are focused on the use of the traditional energy sources. Ukraine has significant potential for RES, but they are generally used in private households. Therefore, the introduction of RES as an energy source in a single energy system of Ukraine is currently the actual task and requires thorough investigation.
The high cost of new energy grids construction, locality of their placement and differences between regions based on RES potential needs the preliminary assessment of the possibility and the necessity of their introduction into the grid. This requires efficient tools for energy management including the using of information technologies often in the form of Decision Support Systems (DSS) concerning RES integration into existing power grid.
In accordance with analysis the current situation of using RES in Ukraine, this Chapter captures the features of the RES integration into the Ukrainian power grid. It is the solid source of comprehensive reference material in the related research field. The RES potential of Ukraine, barriers of its implementation into Ukrainian power grid and legislation for regulation this process were considered.
The actual problems in the field of energy management by using the information modeling of the power grid and district heating have been studied. The analysis of the existing energy management methods that can be applied in DSS was carried and the tasks of the short-term heat demand forecasting. The research results can serve as a basis for work on the construction of a Decision Support System, which allows  simulating  the  work  processes  and  receiving  summary  information  about  the systems, the recommendations for its design, etc.
Key words: Renewable Energy Sources, Distributed Generation, Smart Grid, Decision Support System, District Heating, Energy Management, Information System