Chapter 39

Smart Microgrid in Hospital Community to Enhance Public Health

P. Renugadevi

P. Renugadevi

SCOPE, Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai, India

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R. Maheswari

R. Maheswari

Centre for Smart Grid Technologies, SCOPE, Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai, India

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First published: 06 July 2023

Summary

The deployment of Microgrid (MG) with Distributed Energy Resources (renewable sources such as solar panels, wind turbine, biomass, etc.) and storage systems in a Hospital community will reduce life-threatening problems. In some cases, patients die when treatment stops due to power dropouts and failures in the utility grid. Many incidents in hospitals both rural and urban are due to power outages or shedding due to the power failure from the utility grid. Even though huge hospitals or small health centers run with backup generation/Diesel generator or normal UPS system they cannot operate life-supporting machines like ventilator, pacemaker, dialyzing machines, surgical devices etc., for more than a few hours. This may lead to death of patients or may cause other serious problems. But it is hard to imagine the causes of these incidents due to irregular power supply, while compared with other fields or industries more priority has to be given to the medical-related fields rather than other domains. This work concentrates on discussion of some case studies in India, by knowing the importance of Microgrid implementation in a hospital community in spite of small or huge hospital highly focusing on public health safety and welfare of society. The government is taking various steps regarding the optimization, designing and deployment of a Microgrid community. In another side the research towards Microgrid is going on, even though the challenges in implementing this concept can be moving further steps with the help of Big Data Analytics and Smart Grid Systems (future of the world).

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