Economic Feasibility of a Hybrid Microgrid System for a Distributed Substation

Ramesh Kumar Arunachalam, Kumar Chandrasekaran, Eugen Rusu (), Nagananthini Ravichandran and Hady H. Fayek
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Ramesh Kumar Arunachalam: Principal Engineer-Power Systems, Power Projects, Chennai 600032, India
Kumar Chandrasekaran: Electrical and Electronics Engineering, M.Kumarasamy College of Engineering, Karur 639113, India
Eugen Rusu: Department of Mechanical Engineering, University Dunarea de Jos of Galati, 800008 Galati, Romania
Nagananthini Ravichandran: Department of Structures for Engineering and Architecture, University of Naples, 80138 Naples, Italy
Hady H. Fayek: Electromechanics Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Heliopolis University, Cairo 11785, Egypt

Sustainability, 2023, vol. 15, issue 4, 1-17

Abstract: A hybrid microgrid system is modelled using HOMER-Pro software for real-time load data and available energy sources at Elapakkam village under Ramapuram substation, Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu, India. Optimization approaches are applied for the selection of rating of the physical components, including solar PV systems, diesel generators, storage batteries, converters, inverters, and economic parameters such as system cost, fuel cost, and cash flow. The daily community load profile for the year 2018 was estimated based on data from TANGEDCO. Accordingly, the total load demand for the village represented 8760 lines of hourly load. The aim of this paper is to select an optimal-sized and reliable hybrid microgrid system to meet the load demands with available energy inputs. However, a comparison based on the cost of energy (COE) and the penetration of renewable energy is carried out for different case studies in the village with the economic-feasibility analysis of various countries. From this analysis, emissions cannot be completely avoided, they could be minimized by combining existing systems with renewable energy systems.

Keywords: HOMER; microgrid; hybrid renewable energy systems; economic-feasibility analysis; emission analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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