1Mechanical Engineering, Mehran UET Shaheed ZAB campus, Khairpur Mir’s Sindh, Pakistan
2Energy System Engineering, USPCAS-E, NUST, Islamabad, Pakistan
American Journal of Energy Research.
2017,
Vol. 5 No. 2, 28-34
DOI: 10.12691/ajer-5-2-1
Copyright © 2017 Science and Education PublishingCite this paper: Akash Meghwar, Latif Ul-Haq, Nafeesa Irshad. Techno Economic Evaluation of Off-grid Hybrid Solar-Wind Power System for Village Malo Bheel, Tharparkar Sindh Pakistan.
American Journal of Energy Research. 2017; 5(2):28-34. doi: 10.12691/ajer-5-2-1.
Correspondence to: Akash Meghwar, Mechanical Engineering, Mehran UET Shaheed ZAB campus, Khairpur Mir’s Sindh, Pakistan. Email:
arthahrani@yahoo.comAbstract
Global energy demand has increased drastically due to increased world population, industrialization and high consumption in domestic sector. In Pakistan, the village Malo Bheel, District Tharparkar is among those 38% of the rural areas who do not have access to grid electricity while the remaining is experiencing power outages. Pakistan has huge untapped renewable energy potential in the form of wind and solar resources. Wind and PV hybrid system offer promising and cost effective solution for the off-grid rural communities in Pakistan. The techno-economic study of PV-wind hybrid system has been carried out to suggest the most economical electricity generation system for 57 households with varying load in Malo Bheel village. The primary objective of this study is to estimate the appropriate dimension of off grid hybrid photovoltaic-wind with minimal battery storage. The Cost of Energy (COE) and Net Present Cost (NPC) for hybrid system obtained using HOMER software is $0.13 per kWh and $66,445 respectively which is considerably less than the standalone solar and wind systems. Therefore, it is concluded that the hybrid power system for Malo Bheel, District Tharparkar is more feasible than other systems.
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