Economic and Environmental Multiobjective Optimization of a Hybrid Power Generation System using Solar and Wind Energy Source

Jhan Prieo Rojas,Dora Villada Castillo,Gonzalo Romero García

doi:10.32479/ijeep.11864

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This article presents a comparison of energy generation using two methods of power production for different geographical locations. For this comparison, the HOMER software was used, which allows simulating generation systems with different energy sources. For the development of these simulations it was necessary to collect three parameters in the locations to be analyzed, which were wind speed, solar radiation and temperature. The photovoltaic array system was simulated using from 10 to 200 units with a constant value of one wind turbine, while for the wind turbine system, 1 to 9 units were used together with a constant value of 100 photovoltaic arrays. For the photovoltaic system, there is no major difference in the net project cost, the renewable fraction and the annual carbon dioxide production when using a greater number of arrays, but an increase in energy production is observed, a greater effect is obtained by changing the location of the system, analyzing the wind system a greater number of turbines increases the energy production, but also increase the annual carbon dioxide production and project cost, there is no significant difference between locations for the project cost the other parameters are affected. By using an optimization algorithm in the systems, the best performance was obtained in Puerto Bolivar using 105 photovoltaic arrays of 1kW and 3 wind turbines of 1.5MW.

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The implementation of renewable and competitive energy solutions is desirable in order to generate a transition from traditional energy consumption, especially in the production of energy that involves the generation of greenhouse gases (Capellán-Pérez et al, 2018; Li et al, 2020; Sadiqa et al, 2018)
A viable alternative is the implementation of hybrid systems, which would greatly help the adaptation, learning and generation of work for renewable energy systems, while gradually reversing the total operation of traditional fossil fuel systems to systems powered by wind turbines and solar panels (Valencia et al, 2019; Haghighat et al, 2016)
For the development of this stage, the simulation will require the capital and replacement costs for the photovoltaic system and the wind system, whose values have been estimated as follows: The 1kW photovoltaic array used in this study will have a unit cost of 3000 $USD, same cost for its replacement; the 1.5MW wind turbines will have a cost of 3,000,000 $USD, same value for its replacement

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The implementation of renewable and competitive energy solutions is desirable in order to generate a transition from traditional energy consumption, especially in the production of energy that involves the generation of greenhouse gases (Capellán-Pérez et al, 2018; Li et al, 2020; Sadiqa et al, 2018). A viable alternative is the implementation of hybrid systems, which would greatly help the adaptation, learning and generation of work for renewable energy systems, while gradually reversing the total operation of traditional fossil fuel systems to systems powered by wind turbines and solar panels (Valencia et al, 2019; Haghighat et al, 2016). Another benefit of implementing electricity generation through renewable energy is that it projects job generation of 16% in the manufacturing industry, 29% in the construction sector, and 50% in operation and maintenance, by the year 2050 (Ram et al, 2020)

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