Electrification of Isolated Rural Areas Through Hybrid Wind/Solar/Diesel Micro Station

• Published in: Zanco journal of pure and applied sciences Vol. 35; no. SpA
• Main Author: Karwan Mawlood Hussein ,Ibrahim Ismael Hamarash
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Salahaddin University-Erbil 01-11-2023
• Subjects: energy optimization; hybrid power system; renewable energy; rural electrification; wind/solar combination
• ISSN: 2218-0230; 2412-3986
• DOI: 10.21271/ZJPAS.35.SpA.4

This paper presents a framework for the electrification of an isolated rural residential area through a decentralized hybrid renewable plus diesel energy system. Solar/wind/diesel power units have been combined to supply continuous electrical power to a small isolated rural community in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. The selection of the unit rates for an optimum cost-effective solution is evaluated. The framework activities include wind/solar speed/ Radiation data collection via monitoring instruments on the test location and a time-based load forecasting calculation method. Based on the available data for the wind/solar attributes a control system is designed to manage the hourly synchronization of the three units. The system is tested by the MATLAB simulator with satisfactory results.