Cost-effective Simulation of the Hybrid Solar/Wind and Diesel Energy System in Rural Area

This paper describes the optimization of a hybrid energy system model. Currently in Sarawak, people living in the rural areas still depend on diesel generators to generate electricity. This increases the demand for fossil fuel, creates noise pollution and toxic gas is emitted to the environment. Hen...

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Main Authors: Barsoum, Nader, Sim, Ee
Other Authors: Nader Barsoum
Format: Conference Paper
Published: American Institue of Physics AIP 2008
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/3245
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description This paper describes the optimization of a hybrid energy system model. Currently in Sarawak, people living in the rural areas still depend on diesel generators to generate electricity. This increases the demand for fossil fuel, creates noise pollution and toxic gas is emitted to the environment. Hence, hybrid energy systems were introduced to replace this conventional energy system as well as improving the living standard in the villages. In this paper, several hybrid energy system configurations were investigated in order to find out the most cost effective hybrid system through Hybrid Optimization Model for Electric Renewability (Homer) software. Homer simulates, optimizes, and analyzes the sensitivity variables for each of the system configurations.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-32452017-09-13T16:02:18Z Cost-effective Simulation of the Hybrid Solar/Wind and Diesel Energy System in Rural Area Barsoum, Nader Sim, Ee Nader Barsoum This paper describes the optimization of a hybrid energy system model. Currently in Sarawak, people living in the rural areas still depend on diesel generators to generate electricity. This increases the demand for fossil fuel, creates noise pollution and toxic gas is emitted to the environment. Hence, hybrid energy systems were introduced to replace this conventional energy system as well as improving the living standard in the villages. In this paper, several hybrid energy system configurations were investigated in order to find out the most cost effective hybrid system through Hybrid Optimization Model for Electric Renewability (Homer) software. Homer simulates, optimizes, and analyzes the sensitivity variables for each of the system configurations. 2008 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/3245 10.1063/1.3008696 American Institue of Physics AIP restricted
spellingShingle Barsoum, Nader
Sim, Ee
Cost-effective Simulation of the Hybrid Solar/Wind and Diesel Energy System in Rural Area
title Cost-effective Simulation of the Hybrid Solar/Wind and Diesel Energy System in Rural Area
title_full Cost-effective Simulation of the Hybrid Solar/Wind and Diesel Energy System in Rural Area
title_fullStr Cost-effective Simulation of the Hybrid Solar/Wind and Diesel Energy System in Rural Area
title_full_unstemmed Cost-effective Simulation of the Hybrid Solar/Wind and Diesel Energy System in Rural Area
title_short Cost-effective Simulation of the Hybrid Solar/Wind and Diesel Energy System in Rural Area
title_sort cost-effective simulation of the hybrid solar/wind and diesel energy system in rural area
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/3245