Abstract
Homer Legacy software is a well-known software for simulation of small hybrid systems that can be used for both design and research. This dataset is a set of files generated by Homer Legacy bringing the simulation results of hybrid energy systems over the last seven years, as a consequence of the research work led by Dr. Alexandre Beluco, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, in southern Brazil. The data correspond to thirty papers published in the last seven years. Two of them describe hydro PV hybrid systems with photovoltaic panels operating on the water surface of reservoirs. One of these twelve papers suggests the model-ing of hydropower plants with reservoirs and the other the modeling of pumped hydro stor-age, and a third still uses these models in a place that could receive both the two types of hy-droelectric power plant. The other simulated hybrid systems include wind turbines, diesel generators, batteries, among other components. This data article describes the files that inte-grate this dataset and the papers that have been published presenting the hybrid systems under study and discussing the results. The files that make up this dataset are available on Mendeley Data repository at dx.doi.org/10.17632/ybxsttf2by.2.
Highlights
Hybrid energy systems can take on very complex behavior, considering the characteristics presented by the energy availability of renewable resources, by the energy demand profiles of the consumers, by the energy storage devices and by the possible combinations between exploited renewable energy resources and between devices for energy storage
Homer software was developed in the early years of this century by members of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), until version 2.68
This paper presents files obtained with the Homer Legacy software for nine different case studies and for three methods for simulation of specific hybrid systems
Summary
Hybrid energy systems can take on very complex behavior, considering the characteristics presented by the energy availability of renewable resources, by the energy demand profiles of the consumers, by the energy storage devices and by the possible combinations between exploited renewable energy resources and between devices for energy storage. This paper presents files obtained with the Homer Legacy software for nine different case studies and for three methods for simulation of specific hybrid systems. One such method (Canales & Beluco, 2014) describes how to simulate hydro power plants with reservoir and the other (Canales, Beluco & Mendes, 2017) describes how to simulate pumped storage plants, since Homer simulates only run-of-the-river hydropower. The subsequent section briefly presents the method used to build the Homer files composing this data set and the fourth and final section outlines some basic information on how to get the Homer software, Legacy version, and how to use it and how to access the files in this dataset. Simulation data were obtained for operational or design hybrid energy systems at some locations along the territory of the State of Rio Grande do Sul, the southernmost State of Brazil
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