Title :
Techno-economic feasibility study of biomass based hybrid renewable energy system for microgrid application
Author :
Kumaravel, S. ; Ashok, S. ; Balamurugan, P.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Nat. Inst. of Technol. Calicut, Calicut, India
Abstract :
The emerging potential of renewable based electricity generation systems, diversity of storage and various loads are interconnected through the microgrid structure. Techno-economic study to design and develop a biomass based hybrid renewable energy systems for the microgrid application for a typical rural site is described in this paper. Optimization on size of the sources of hybrid system has been carried out for the collected potential of resources and load demands of the rural site. Analysis shows that though the grid connected hybrid system requires additional capital cost of 8.79%, the rate of energy is 3.61 per kWh. Sensitivity analysis are carried out for various factors such as tariff rates, capital cost of solar-PV, wind speed and the results are presented in this paper.
Keywords :
bioenergy conversion; distributed power generation; hybrid power systems; optimisation; photovoltaic power systems; power distribution economics; power grids; power system interconnection; sensitivity analysis; solar power stations; biomass based hybrid renewable energy system; capital cost; grid connected hybrid system; load demand; load interconnection; microgrid application; optimization; renewable based electricity generation system; sensitivity analysis; solar-PV; tariff rate; technoeconomic feasibility study; wind speed; Biomass; Economics; Generators; Hybrid power systems; Microgrids; Wind energy generation; alternative energy; biomass; hybrid system; rural electrification; solar-PV; techno-economic analysis; wind;
Conference_Titel :
Green Technologies (ICGT), 2012 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Trivandrum
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-2635-3
DOI :
10.1109/ICGT.2012.6477956
