Design and optimization of hybrid power system for remote residential area

Abstract

Hybrid power systems, which utilize different renewable resources such as wind, solar, biomass, micro hydro, with fossil fuel powered diesel generator to provide electric power, are well suited for remote rural areas. This project present to Optimization of renewable energy hybrid system looks into the process of selecting the best components and its sizing with appropriate operation strategy to provide cheap efficient, reliable and cost effective. This project is formed on the basis of cost effective modeling for remote rural area that is minimization of energy production cost. This thesis shows the way to design the aspects of a hybrid power system that will target remote users. The hybrid of solar, wind and battery as back-up is the basis of assessment. The system configuration of the hybrid is derived based on a theoretical domestic load at a remote location and local solar radiation and wind speed. The main power of the hybrid system comes from the photovoltaic panels and wind turbine, while the batteries are used as backup units. The optimization software used for this project is HOMER. HOMER is a design model that determines the optimal architecture and control strategy of the hybrid system. The simulation results indicate that the proposed hybrid system would be a feasible solution for distributed generation of electric power for stand-alone applications at remote locations.