Design and development of a GUI for an optimal hybrid energy system

Author

Ramya, A. Sree ; Periyasamy, Nirushini ; Vidhya, A. ; Sundrapandian, Sangeetha ; Raja, P.

Author_Institution

Dept. of EEE, Nat. Inst. of Technol., Tiruchirappalli, India

fYear

2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

In this paper user-friendly Graphical User Interface in MATLAB has been developed to cater the need of residential customers who opt for installation of renewable energy sources for their electrical demand. The developed GUI will display the optimal number of wind generators and solar PV panels with their optimal cost of installation and the savings for a year based on the input from the customer. Also the customer can have an idea of daily energy production of the installed system for any day of the year through another GUI portal. A simple optimization algorithm has been developed and executed in MATLAB for finding the number of wind generators and solar PV panels required for installation in any system ensuring that the total cost of the system is minimized with the specified demand being met. A comprehensive data collection for wind speed, solar irradiation and temperature was done for all the districts of Tamil Nadu, India.

Keywords

building integrated photovoltaics; graphical user interfaces; hybrid power systems; power engineering computing; solar cells; solar radiation; wind power; India; Tamil Nadu; electrical demand; graphical user interface; optimal hybrid energy system; renewable energy sources; residential customers; solar PV panels; solar irradiation; solar temperature; user-friendly GUI design; wind generators; wind speed; Generators; Graphical user interfaces; Optimization; Portals; Renewable energy sources; Wind; Wind energy generation; Graphical User Interface; Optimization Algorithm; Solar PV panels; Wind Generators;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Systems Conference (NPSC), 2014 Eighteenth National

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NPSC.2014.7103836

Filename

7103836