Modeling and Simulation of Renewables for Telelabs

Abstract

Increased growth in population and development activities result in increased energy consumption. Environment friendly renewable energy technologies should be promoted to meet this rising energy demand. On the background of this knowledge, research in the field of renewable Hybrid Power System (HPS) is significant. Along with simulation, familiarity with operation and control of physical HPS is equally important. The automation lab of Soest university currently works on a laboratory model of HPS consisting of photovoltaic (PV) panel, wind turbine, battery storage and inverter. In this paper, the concept of Telelab is used to demonstrate modeling of PV panel using Matlab software. Use of HOMER software for modeling and optimization is discussed. The results will be analysed and subsequently conclusion would be discussed. In this paper, the idea of Telelab/Remote lab and its role in knowledge and technology transfer at affordable costs would be discussed at the end. The author would discuss the idea of resource sharing (software and hardware) through the concept of Telelab. The basic architecture of Telelab through which remote authorized users would be able to share the simulation environment and the lab experiment would be described.