Modeling and simulation of cost-effective and reliable hybrid renewable energy system for remote areas

This paper focus on one of the challenging and important situation of the all the countries around the globe i.e remote areas/ rural electrification. In this paper, economical and reliable hybrid renewable energy system for remote areas has been implemented. The hybrid system uses a combination of solar and wind energy system as they are complementary and availability is plenty in nature. It can work in standalone mode or in hybrid mode depending on the availability of the sources. For the efficient utilization of the solar and wind energy, a modified PWM inverter with minimum components is used to obtain high quality output ac power that can feed directly the loads in remote areas. Direct drive PMSG, MPPT control, the modified PWM inverter with minimum power electronics, feeding ac and dc loads makes the system more economical, reliable for the remote areas electrification. MATLAB/Simulink software is used for the modelling and simulation of the hybrid energy system.