PMID- 36679390
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
DCOM- 20230124
LR  - 20230202
IS  - 1424-8220 (Electronic)
IS  - 1424-8220 (Linking)
VI  - 23
IP  - 2
DP  - 2023 Jan 4
TI  - GIS-Based Assessment of Hybrid Pumped Hydro Storage as a Potential Solution for 
      the Clean Energy Transition: The Case of the Kardia Lignite Mine, Western Greece.
LID - 10.3390/s23020593 [doi]
LID - 593
AB  - Planned decommissioning of coal-fired plants in Europe requires innovative 
      technical and economic strategies to support coal regions on their path towards a 
      climate-resilient future. The repurposing of open pit mines into hybrid pumped 
      hydro power storage (HPHS) of excess energy from the electric grid, and renewable 
      sources will contribute to the EU Green Deal, increase the economic value, 
      stabilize the regional job market and contribute to the EU energy supply 
      security. This study aims to present a preliminary phase of a geospatial workflow 
      used to evaluate land suitability by implementing a multi-criteria decision 
      making (MCDM) technique with an advanced geographic information system (GIS) in 
      the context of an interdisciplinary feasibility study on HPHS in the Kardia 
      lignite open pit mine (Western Macedonia, Greece). The introduced geospatial 
      analysis is based on the utilization of the constraints and ranking criteria 
      within the boundaries of the abandoned mine regarding specific topographic and 
      proximity criteria. The applied criteria were selected from the literature, while 
      for their weights, the experts' judgement was introduced by implementing the 
      analytic hierarchy process (AHP), in the framework of the ATLANTIS research 
      program. According to the results, seven regions were recognized as suitable, 
      with a potential energy storage capacity from 1.09 to 5.16 GWh. Particularly, the 
      present study's results reveal that 9.27% (212,884 m(2)) of the area had a very 
      low suitability, 15.83% (363,599 m(2)) had a low suitability, 23.99% (550,998 
      m(2)) had a moderate suitability, 24.99% (573,813 m(2)) had a high suitability, 
      and 25.92% (595,125 m(2)) had a very high suitability for the construction of the 
      upper reservoir. The proposed semi-automatic geospatial workflow introduces an 
      innovative tool that can be applied to open pit mines globally to identify the 
      optimum design for an HPHS system depending on the existing lower reservoir.
FAU - Krassakis, Pavlos
AU  - Krassakis P
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-5002-6802
AD  - Centre for Research and Technology, Hellas (CERTH), 52 Egialias St., 151 25 
      Maroussi, Greece.
FAU - Karavias, Andreas
AU  - Karavias A
AD  - Centre for Research and Technology, Hellas (CERTH), 52 Egialias St., 151 25 
      Maroussi, Greece.
FAU - Zygouri, Evangelia
AU  - Zygouri E
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-4716-5059
AD  - Centre for Research and Technology, Hellas (CERTH), 52 Egialias St., 151 25 
      Maroussi, Greece.
FAU - Roumpos, Christos
AU  - Roumpos C
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-9394-8041
AD  - Public Power Corporation of Greece (PPC), Department of Mining Engineering and 
      Closure Planning, 104 32 Athens, Greece.
FAU - Louloudis, Georgios
AU  - Louloudis G
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-9347-9123
AD  - Public Power Corporation of Greece (PPC), Department of Mining Engineering and 
      Closure Planning, 104 32 Athens, Greece.
FAU - Pyrgaki, Konstantina
AU  - Pyrgaki K
AD  - Centre for Research and Technology, Hellas (CERTH), 52 Egialias St., 151 25 
      Maroussi, Greece.
FAU - Koukouzas, Nikolaos
AU  - Koukouzas N
AD  - Centre for Research and Technology, Hellas (CERTH), 52 Egialias St., 151 25 
      Maroussi, Greece.
FAU - Kempka, Thomas
AU  - Kempka T
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-6317-5113
AD  - GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Telegrafenberg, 14473 Potsdam, 
      Germany.
AD  - Institute of Geosciences, University of Potsdam, Karl-Liebknecht-St. 24-25, 14476 
      Potsdam, Germany.
FAU - Karapanos, Dimitris
AU  - Karapanos D
AD  - Centre for Research and Technology, Hellas (CERTH), 52 Egialias St., 151 25 
      Maroussi, Greece.
LA  - eng
GR  - 101034022/European Union/
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20230104
PL  - Switzerland
TA  - Sensors (Basel)
JT  - Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
JID - 101204366
RN  - 0 (Coal)
SB  - IM
MH  - *Geographic Information Systems
MH  - Greece
MH  - *Coal
MH  - Europe
PMC - PMC9864897
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - AHP
OT  - GIS
OT  - Kardia mine
OT  - MCDM
OT  - hybrid pumped hydro power storage
OT  - hydro power
OT  - hydro storage
COIS- The authors declare no conflict of interest.
EDAT- 2023/01/22 06:00
MHDA- 2023/01/25 06:00
PMCR- 2023/01/04
CRDT- 2023/01/21 01:53
PHST- 2022/11/24 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2022/12/15 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2022/12/29 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2023/01/21 01:53 [entrez]
PHST- 2023/01/22 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2023/01/25 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2023/01/04 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - s23020593 [pii]
AID - sensors-23-00593 [pii]
AID - 10.3390/s23020593 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - Sensors (Basel). 2023 Jan 4;23(2):593. doi: 10.3390/s23020593.