Steady-state modelling of hybrid energy system for off grid electrification of cluster of villages

Ajai Gupta, R.P. Saini and M.P. Sharma

Renewable Energy, 2010, vol. 35, issue 2, 520-535

Abstract: Electrification of villages from the main grid leads to large investments and losses, and this forms the basis of decentralized Hybrid Energy System. In order to evaluate the techno-economic performance of hybrid energy system for remote rural area electrification, a mixed integer linear mathematical programming model (time-series) has been developed to determine the optimal operation, optimal configuration including the assessment of the economic penetration levels of photovoltaic array area, and cost optimization for a hybrid energy generation system consisting of small/micro hydro based power generation, biogas based power generation, biomass (fuelwood) based power generation, photovoltaic array, a battery bank and a fossil fuel generator. An optimum control algorithm written in C++, based on combined dispatch strategy, allowing easy handling of the models and data of hybrid energy system components is presented. A special feature of the proposed model is that a cost constant (cost/unit) for each of the proposed resource is introduced in the cost objective function in such a way that resources with lesser unit cost share the greater of the total energy demand in an attempt to optimize the objective function.

Keywords: Hybrid energy system; Micro-hydro; Solar photovoltaic; Biomass energy; Biogas energy; Diesel generator (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2009.06.014

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