Abstract:
The energy demand and consumption requirements in Pakistan are facing significant
challenges due to the recent gradual increase in population; intensifies the critical
energy issues confronting the country. Additionally, energy consumption per capita
in Pakistan has been steadily rising and is expected to continue increasing in the
future. However, the carbon dioxide gas and other toxic gasses from this conventional
energy is the main concern for energy generation in Pakistan, South-Southeast Asia
and the rest of the world. Hence, Renewable Energy Sources (RES) such as solar
photovoltaic (PV) and wind turbines have been contributing a significant percentage
of their daily energy needs. However, this energy has not had such standard rather
than conventional energy such as fossil fuels regularly. Thus, a microgrid hybrid
system containing Solar-Wind renewable and conventional generator needs to
produce sustainable Electricity in National University of Sciences and Technology
(NUST), Islamabad. On one hand, solar-wind combination can produce energy with
specified timing. On the other hand, there are expensive costs. This factor can have
prominent issues such as frequent electricity blackouts and imbalanced energy
provision. Therefore, the microgrid hybrid systems can evaluate these incorporating
solar PV and wind power renewable energy sources and fossil fuel generators as a
balance and having an optimum feasibility cost. In addition, this optimum feasibility
can provide predictable forecasts of these energy production in the future term based
on economic factors in this University, Islamabad. This assessment can have Hybrid
Optimization of Multiple Energy Resources (HOMER) software simulation which
faced by challenges to explore sustainable solutions through the integration of
renewable/conventional energy sources into the existing energy infrastructure.
