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| Using Sandia’s Microgrid Design Toolkit for Microgrid Sizing and Resilience Assessment in the Rural Community of Corcovada Rolando J.Tremont-Brito1, Rachid Darbali-Zamora2, Erick E.Aponte-Bezares1. 1University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez, Mayagüez, PR, USA.2Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, USA |
Abstract
Electric service in Puerto Rico is often unreliable, particularly for rural and mountainous communities that experience longer outages following hurricanes and other natural hazards. Community-scale microgrids are increasingly considered as an alternative to improve service to critical loads during these events. However, the performance of different microgrid architectures under longer outage conditions is not well understood. This paper applies Sandia’s Microgrid Design Toolkit (MDT) to evaluate centralized, distributed, and hybrid microgrid configurations for the rural community of Corcovada, Puerto Rico. The analysis focuses on energy availability for prioritized loads under hurricane- and earthquake-driven outage scenarios while considering capital cost trade-offs. Preliminary results show that microgrid architecture affects energy availability and cost, providing planning-level insight for early-stage microgrid design in hazard-affected communities.
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