Off-Grid Renewable Hybrid Power Generation System for a Public Health Centre in Rural Village

AJOYA KUMAR PRADHAN, SANJEEB KUMAR KAR, MAHENDRA KUMAR MOHANTY

Abstract


The continuous power supply for rural areas can be possible by using renewable hybrid power generation system and also reduction of the energy storage devices for the system. The impact of the shortage of power supply probability, excess power generation, ratio of the energy supply to load demand, renewable fraction  of different types of  energy sources (solar and wind) and the combined system components and their performances are analyzed. The techno-economic feasibility of solar – wind hybrid system with battery backup is fully discussed. The off-grid PV system, PV-wind hybrid system is modeled and simulated using HOMER software. The comparative analysis of different possible configurations is analyzed in detail. It is found from the simulation results that the PV-wind hybrid system has the lowest unit cost of energy as compared to stand-alone solar PV or wind system. So, the PV-wind hybrid system is most suitable for proposed project.


Keywords


Renewable energy; Stand-alone system; solar energy; HOMER software

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