Abstract
The foremost issues of 21st century are challenging demand of electrical energy and to control the emission of Green House Gases (GHG) emissions. Renewable energy resources based sustainable microgrid emerges as one of the best feasible solution for future energy demand while considering zero carbon emission, fossil fuel independency, and enhanced reliability. In this paper, optimization and implementation of institutional based sustainable microgrid are discussed based on cost analysis, carbon emission, and availability of energy resources. Various microgrid topologies are considered for addressing the most ideal solution. The metrological data such as irradiance is acquired from solar satellite data of NASA (National Aero Space Agency) while the data for wind speed is taken from synergy enviro engineer’s site. HOMER® simulation tool is used for modelling and optimization purpose.
Highlights
Worldwide, the demand of energy is increasing day by day, if the conventional methods of bulk power generation are not changed this will lead to major environmental concern because of high carbon emissions which affect the human health and ecological system badly
Future power supply will be less dependent on conventional method of power generation because fossil fuels are limited for energy production and public awareness for environment protection are increases globally
There is a need of power generation from environmental friendly techniques. These technologies include power generation from photovoltaic, wind, geothermal, biomass etc. known as renewable sources of power generation and power generation from non-conventional technologies such as microturbines and fuel cells. These types of power generation sources generally come in distributed generation system and may operate in standalone and grid connected mode depending on the requirement of the system
Summary
The demand of energy is increasing day by day, if the conventional methods of bulk power generation are not changed this will lead to major environmental concern because of high carbon emissions which affect the human health and ecological system badly. People in developed countries, have access to reliable and high quality power supply but in developing countries like India, people from most of the states are facing various issues related to poor quality of power supply like frequent power outages, inadequate grid capacity and huge power losses from transmission and distribution network. These problems are very common almost in all rural areas of India [2].
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