Feasibility Analysis of Solar-Biomass Based Standalone Hybrid System for Remote Area

Priyanka Anand; Sarbjeet Kaur Bath; Mohammad Rizwan

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Feasibility Analysis of Solar-Biomass Based Standalone Hybrid System for Remote Area

Priyanka Anand, Sarbjeet Kaur Bath, Mohammad Rizwan

Published in American Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems (Volume 5, Issue 6)

Received: 1 December 2016 Accepted: 21 December 2016 Published: 10 January 2017

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Abstract

In India, around 70% of the population is living in remote areas and is not able to get proper electricity from utility grid. Around 20% of the total population has no access of electricity at all, which is not commendable for any developing country like India. Most of the electricity requirement is fulfilled by diesel generator only which is not a feasible solution because of fuel cost, greenhouse gas emission etc. Therefore, there is a need of an alternative solution for power generation in such remote areas. In view of the above, the feasibility analysis of renewable energy based hybrid system has been carried out for a remote area of district Sonipat, Haryana, India. In this study, major renewable energy sources including solar, wind, biomass and small hydro are considered to perform the feasibility analysis. A standalone hybrid model based on solar-biomass is found the feasible and viable option. The cost of power generated from proposed hybrid model is $ 0.086 per unit and is almost free from greenhouse gas emission which is at par in cost with the conventional supply and better in terms of clean production. Such hybrid systems can be very useful for electrification of other similar remote areas.

Published in	American Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems (Volume 5, Issue 6)
DOI	10.11648/j.epes.20160506.16
Page(s)	99-108
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Renewable Energy, Solar Photovoltaic, Biomass, HOMER, Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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Priyanka Anand, Sarbjeet Kaur Bath, Mohammad Rizwan. Feasibility Analysis of Solar-Biomass Based Standalone Hybrid System for Remote Area. Am J Electr Power Energy Syst. 2017;5(6):99-108. doi: 10.11648/j.epes.20160506.16

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Priyanka Anand

Department of Electrical Engineering, I. K. Gujral Punjab Technical University, Kapurthala, Punjab, India
Sarbjeet Kaur Bath

Department of Electrical Engineering, Giani Zail Singh Campus College of Engineering & Technology, Bathinda, Punjab, India
Mohammad Rizwan

Department of Electrical Engineering, Delhi Technological University, Delhi, India

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