Techno-economic Feasibility Analysis of an Off-grid Hybrid Renewable Energy System for Rural Electrification

Jamil Ahmed; Khanji Harijan; Pervez Hameed Shaikh; Amjad Ali Lashari

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Techno-economic Feasibility Analysis of an Off-grid Hybrid Renewable Energy System for Rural Electrification

Jamil Ahmed, Khanji Harijan, Pervez Hameed Shaikh, Amjad Ali Lashari

Published in Journal of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (Volume 9, Issue 1)

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The demand for electricity in remote rural areas is a major obstacle to their development. The extension of the grid network to remote rural areas has been identified as a difficult topography for complex constructions and enormous investments. The development of off-grid renewable energy generation technologies offers the opportunity for tackling these challenges. This study provides a techno-economic feasibility analysis of an off-grid hybrid renewable energy system for a rural village of district Kech, Balochistan, Pakistan. The proposed hybrid system integrates the different combinations of the wind turbine, solar PV modules, and battery backups to meet the required electric load demand. The hybrid system is modeled and optimized through a powerful simulation software Hybrid Optimized Model for Electric Renewable (HOMER-Pro). The optimized configuration of the hybrid system consists of wind turbines (12kW), solar PV (103kW), 224 lead-acid batteries (72.4Ah each), and 29.1 kW converters. The simulation results show that the proposed system can meet the power requirements of 197.74kWh/day primary demand load with 27.87kW peak load. This system configuration has the Net Present Cost (NPC) of $127,345 and Cost of Energy (COE) of 0.137$/kWh with a 100% renewable fraction. Furthermore, the results of the present study are compared with the literature and have resulted in a cost-effective hybrid renewable energy system with a low COE.

Published in	Journal of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (Volume 9, Issue 1)
DOI	10.11648/j.jeee.20210901.12
Page(s)	7-15
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Techno-economic, Feasibility, COE, Hybrid, NPC

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Jamil Ahmed

Department of Energy Systems Engineering, Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Jamshoro, Sindh, Pakistan
Khanji Harijan

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Jamshoro, Sindh, Pakistan
Pervez Hameed Shaikh

Department of Electrical Engineering, Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Jamshoro, Sindh, Pakistan
Amjad Ali Lashari

Department of Electrical Engineering, Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Jamshoro, Sindh, Pakistan

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