Scenarios, Financial Viability and Pathways of Localized Hybrid Energy Generation Systems around the United Kingdom

Decarbonisation is becoming a central aim of countries around the globe, ensuring effects climate change do not increase exponentially in coming years. Renewable energy generation at core this decarbonisation process, enabling economies to divorce themselves from reliance on oil and coal. Hybrid systems can utilise multiple methods supply electrical demand best. This paper investigates use localised hybrid UK, comparing financial viability solar, wind hydrokinetic both as system individually different scenarios. The significance having that they address two large problems within renewable generation, storage issues also generating electricity far away where it actually used, requiring extensive infrastructure. microgrid optimisation software HOMER was used simulate each alongside national grid, including lithium ion batteries converters create comprehensive system. Net Present Cost, which current value all costs installing operating over project lifetime, considered metric. analysis finds for modelled location, turbines combination with converter lowest exception Bristol, uses findings indicate resources available along identifying certain locations country have very high potential tidal power generation.