TITLE:
Studies on the Electrification of the Transport Sector in the Island of Crete, Greece
AUTHORS:
John Vourdoubas
KEYWORDS:
Battery, Carbon Emissions, Crete, Electric Vehicles, Renewable Energies
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Energy Efficiency,
Vol.7 No.1,
March
19,
2018
ABSTRACT: The
possibility of electrifying the transport sector in Crete, Greece has been
investigated. Currently the conventional vehicles in Crete consume annually 316,872
tons of gasoline and diesel oil emitting 1,030,188 tons of CO2.
Electrification of the transport sector in Crete will result in a decrease of
imported fossil fuels use and a reduction of CO2 emissions. It will
also increase the use of locally available renewable energies in electricity
generation. If all the existing conventional vehicles in Crete were to be
replaced by electric vehicles, the
annual electricity requirements in their batteries would be 1,092,568 to 1,311,077
MWh depending on the type of battery. The energy demand of the electric cars
could be covered with electricity generated by renewable energies including
solar and wind energy which are abundant in the island. The batteries of the
electric cars could be used as electricity storage devices facilitating the
penetration of intermittent renewable energies, with distributed generation
systems, into the smart electric grid of Crete. It has been estimated that the
aggregated theoretical storage capacity of all the batteries would be 6.33 GWh
and that the size of the solar-PV plants and wind energy systems, generating
all the electricity required by electric vehicles, would be 728 to 874 MWp and
445 to 534 MW respectively.