Proposed Technique for Optimally Sizing a PV/Diesel Hybrid System

Abstract

The combination of the remote-area-diesel

generators with a battery storage and renewable energy source

such as photovoltaic (PV) can greatly overcome the problems of

these generators. In this paper a PV/Diesel generator hybrid

energy system is sized to meet the load for about 100%

availability. Where, for a given load characteristic and a given

diesel generator a methodology is developed to optimize the

operation of the diesel generator and to calculate the optimum

number of the PV modules and batteries that would achieve a

minimum initial cost and a desired depth of discharge for

battery storage, as indicated by the results.