Techno-Economic Analysis of RES based Islanded Microgrid for Different Locations at Tamilnadu

Abstract

Recently, a main challenging issues for rural electrification and remote areas are having limited power consumption or without grid connection access. Especially, the global concerns towards weather changes, clean and sustainable energy system, reducing fuel costs, reliable renewable sources and environmental impact to assure the feasible energy demand. To accomplish this problem, this study examines a hybrid renewable energy source (RES) such as solar panel system, wind system, Battery System (BS), Diesel Generators system (DG) for a selected three off-grid locations such as Aralvaimozhi, Kamuthi, and Cuddalore in Tamil Nadu, India with different climate weather conditions. Additionally, fuel-based generator energy sources are designed, investigated and compared with hybrid RES to estimate the feasible solution in technical and economic indicators with the help of hybrid renewable source optimization model (HOMER) tool. Meanwhile, an optimal solution to find the sensitivity performance is covered with a help of specific parameters such as solar insolation level, wind speed, generator belongs to load follow strategy (LF), cycle charge (CC) and combined charge (CD) for the proposed system. Therefore, the obtained optimal behaviour for the hybrid solar-wind speed with battery, DG source is compared over the selected locations to find the energy efficient and cost configuration. Consequently, the designed system gives lowest level of cost of net present cost, energy cost and air pollution reduction in carbon as well as fuel utilization. Finally, the consequence of this present study project that renewable energy potential for each location for the proposed hybrid system should be viable and feasible.