Optimal design of hybrid energy system with PV/wind turbine/storage: A case study

Author

Huang, Rui ; Low, Steven H. ; Topcu, Ufuk ; Chandy, K. Mani ; Clarke, Christopher R.

Author_Institution

Comput. Math. Sci., California Inst. of Technol., Pasadena, CA, USA

fYear

2011

fDate

17-20 Oct. 2011

Firstpage

511

Lastpage

516

Abstract

Hybrid energy systems with renewable generation are built in many remote areas where the renewable resources are abundant and the environment is clean. We present a case study of the Catalina Island in California for which a system with photovoltaic (PV) arrays, wind turbines, and battery storage is designed based on empirical weather and load data. To determine the system size, we formulate an optimization problem that minimizes the total construction and operation cost subject to maximum tolerable risk. Simulations using the Hybrid Optimization Model for Electric Renewable (HOMER) is used to determine the feasible set of the optimization problem.

Keywords

battery storage plants; hybrid power systems; optimisation; photovoltaic power systems; solar cell arrays; wind power plants; HOMER; battery storage; electric renewable; hybrid energy system; hybrid optimization model; optimization problem; photovoltaic arrays; photovoltaic power system; wind turbine; Batteries; Iron; Load modeling; Solar radiation; Wind speed; Wind turbines;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm), 2011 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Brussels

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1704-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4577-1702-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SmartGridComm.2011.6102376

Filename

6102376