Development of a cost model for assessment of wind and solar power in Oman

Author

Al-Badi, A.H. ; Albadi, M.H. ; Malik, Anuj ; Al-Hilali, M. ; Al-Busaidi, A. ; Al-Omairi, S.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Sultan Qaboos Univ., Muscat, Oman

fYear

2013

fDate

25-28 Feb. 2013

Firstpage

700

Lastpage

704

Abstract

In this paper a model is built to assess the energy cost/kWh for utilizing wind and solar power produced using different sizes of wind turbines and PV panels at two sites in Oman, which then can be generalized for the remaining locations in Oman. Hourly values of wind speed and solar radiation recorded for several years are used for these locations. Furthermore, the paper presents a study carried out to investigate the economics of using PV only and PV with battery as an energy fuel saver in two villages. The results show that PV energy utilization is an attractive option with energy cost of the selected PV ranges between 0.128-0.144 $/kWh at 7.55% discount rate compared to diesel generation operating cost of 0.128-0.558 $/kWh.

Keywords

costing; photovoltaic power systems; power generation economics; power utilisation; solar power stations; sunlight; wind power plants; wind turbines; Oman; PV panel; battery energy fuel saver; cost model; diesel generation; power generation economics; power utilization; solar power assessment; solar radiation; wind power assessment; wind speed; wind turbine; Batteries; Electricity; Load modeling; Wind energy; Wind speed; Wind turbines; Battery; Hybrid energy system; PV; Wind energy;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industrial Technology (ICIT), 2013 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Cape Town

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-4567-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4673-4568-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICIT.2013.6505757

Filename

6505757