Optimal Combination and Sizing of a New and Renewable Hybrid Generation System

Since solar, wind and tidal energies mainly depend upon statistical parameters with respect to changing climate and environment, focus on hybrid generation system design increases the availability of the power generation system. The hybrid system also reduces the dependence on one environment parameter thus providing the consumer with reliable and cheap electricity. Therefore optimal combination and sizing design of hybrid generation system considering the battery has a very important role in the use of renewable energy effectively and economically. Several approaches were developed to achieve the optimal configurations of the hybrid systems such as the least square method, the trade-off method and the probabilistic approach method. This study presents a method to design the optimal combination and unit sizing for new and renewable hybrid systems. The method is to find the optimal configuration and sizing among sets of system components, that meets the desired system requirements, with the lowest value of the energy cost. The availability of the methodology is demonstrated with the field data acquired from sets of experiments.