Role of Renewable Resources and Power to Gas (P2G) Technology on the Resiliency of an Energy Hub in the Case of Gas Network Outage

The energy hub is defined as a model for the integrated study of different energy infrastructures connected to electricity and natural gas networks and meet the different demands of consumers through different converters and storage devices. Security of consumer demand during the gas network outage is an important issue that needs to be studied because of the most important components of the hub run on gas fuel. In this paper, a framework for a hub assessment in gas network outage conditions is presented. Also in order to improve the resiliency from renewable sources and electricity to gas (P2G) technology have been used. The effectiveness of the proposed framework has been investigated through the simulation of several case studies. Finally, the effect of the participation of renewable resources and P2G in gas network outage conditions is calculated by a numerical index. The results show that the rate of resiliency improves with only renewable resources and the participation of renewable resources and P2G simultaneously 6.78% and 20.12% respectively.