Sizing and cost analysis for integrated renewable energy system in a study area

Abstract

The renewable energy sources such as micro hydro, biomass, wind, solar photovoltaics can provide clean and sustainable electricity, as a result, many of sources are already proving cost-competitive contributing about 2% of the total electricity supply of the country. However, one of the issues limiting their greater penetration is done to its intermittent and seasonal availability for energy production. The availability of renewable power depends upon the resources potential and size of the system. The sizing for integrated renewable energy systems (IRES) depends on the uses of the system (load on the system) and the tariffs available from the local utility. In this paper, the sizing and cost analysis of MHP, biomass, wind and SPV system has been under taken.