A numerical analysis of a HYBRID PV+WT power system

¹ AGH University of Science and Technology, Department of Fuels and Energy, Poland
² University of Diyala, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Iraq
³ University of Diyala, Department of Communications Engineering, Iraq

^* Corresponding author: jaszczur@agh.edu.pl

Abstract

The increase in global energy consumption and the expected exhaustion of traditional energy sources, especially in the last century, led to an increased search for alternative sources of energy.The use of renewable energy sources has become extremely important to reduce dependence on fossil fuels. Due to the stochastic nature of the renewable energy sources such as the wind speed fluctuation and the intensity of solar radiation the stable operation of the systems base single renewable source can be problematic. But the using two or more of these sources results in higher stability than relying on a single source. For this reason, hybrid renewable energy systems have become an attractive solution in thefield of renewable energy. A hybrid energy system is a combination of two or more renewable energy sources that can enhance each another to increase the reliability of the supplied energy. The objective of this paper is investigation about the energy supplying improvement and the energy efficiency utilisation by hybridisation using two renewable energy resources: wind energy and solar energy with respect two different optimisation objectives: economical to reduce the net present cost and ecological to reduce CO₂ emissions. Presented system has been implemented to supply a single household with an electric load.