Evaluation of Techno-Economic Design and Implementation of Solar-Wind Hybrid Microgrid System for National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad /

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.