Hybrid Solar and Wind Power: an Essential for Information Communication Technology Infrastructure and People in Rural Communities

One of the primary needs for socio-economic development in any nation in the world is the provision of reliable electricity supply systems. This work is a development of an indigenous technology hybrid Solar -Wind Power system that harnesses the renewable energies in Sun and Wind to generate electricity. Here, electric DC energies produced from photovoltaic and wind turbine systems are transported to a DC disconnect energy Mix controller. The controller is bidirectional connected to a DC-AC float charging-inverter system that provides charging current to a heavy duty storage bank of Battery and at the same time produces inverted AC power to AC loads. The 20022009, 8years wind velocity data for Abeokuta and its environs were collected. The two parameters Wielbull distribution was used to simulate power in W/m 2 densities for the 8-years period. The step by step design of 1000W solar power supply system’s was done as a sample case. Load estimates of a typical rural community and for rural ICT infrastructures were estimated. Simulation of wind power capacity in W/m 2 in Abeokuta, Ogun State Nigerian was done based on the obtained wind data. The results showed that the average exploitable wind power density between 4W/m 2 and 14.97W/m 2 is realizable and that development of hybrid wind-solar system for offgrid communities will go a long way to improve socio-economy lives of people.