Reliable Designing of Stand-alone PV/FC Hybrid System

ABSTRACT: Application of renewable energy sources has shown a perfect potential as a form of contribution to conventional power generation systems. This paper presents a hybrid system based on photovoltaic (PV) module and PEM (proton exchange membrane) fuel cell (FC) with the aim of selling electricity to distribution network (DN) and improving its reliability. In this paper, moreover supplying the load electricity of system, the proposed hybrid system is capable to sale electricity to DN and by electricity injection causes DN reliability improvement. The revenue from selling electricity to DN is considered as the system profit (SP). An optimization is applied to maximize the SP using GAMS environment. This study claims that moreover load electricity provision, electricity can also be sold to DN by proposed hybrid system and reliability of DN in load supplement can be increased by injecting the electricity to it.