Optimal Configuration with Capacity Analysis of a Hybrid Renewable Energy and Storage System for an Island Application

Chih-Ta Tsai, Teketay Mulu Beza, Wei-Bin Wu and Cheng-Chien Kuo
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Chih-Ta Tsai: Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology 43, Sec. 4, Keelung Rd., Taipei 10607, Taiwan
Teketay Mulu Beza: Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology 43, Sec. 4, Keelung Rd., Taipei 10607, Taiwan
Wei-Bin Wu: Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology 43, Sec. 4, Keelung Rd., Taipei 10607, Taiwan
Cheng-Chien Kuo: Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology 43, Sec. 4, Keelung Rd., Taipei 10607, Taiwan

Energies, 2019, vol. 13, issue 1, 1-28

Abstract: The Philippines consists of 7100 islands, many of which still use fossil fuel diesel generators as the main source of electricity. This supply can be complemented by the use of renewable energy sources. This study uses a Philippine offshore island to optimize the capacity configuration of a hybrid energy system (HES). A thorough investigation was performed to understand the operating status of existing diesel generator sets, load power consumption, and collect the statistics of meteorological data and economic data. Using the Hybrid Optimization Models for Energy Resources (HOMER) software we simulate and analyze the techno-economics of different power supply systems containing stand-alone diesel systems, photovoltaic (PV)-diesel HES, wind-diesel HES, PV-wind-diesel HES, PV-diesel-storage HES, wind-diesel-storage HES, PV-wind-diesel-storage HES. In addition to the lowest cost of energy (COE), capital cost, fuel saving and occupied area, the study also uses entropy weight and the Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to an Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) method to evaluate the optimal capacity configuration. The proposed method can also be applied to design hybrid renewable energy systems for other off-grid areas.

Keywords: renewable energy; hybrid energy systems; cost of energy; energy storage; distributed generation (DG); sensitivity analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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