Holistic Modelling of an Integrated Renewable Energy System Controller, Enabling Rapid Hardware Prototyping

The efficient control of a distributed energy resource (DER) hybrid systems is the key for the optimization of renewable sources used in stand alone generators. The system proposed in this paper is based on a wind/photovoltaic hybrid system with the possibility to integrate a fuel cell as energy backup. The research will result in the production and testing of the hardware prototype of an FPGA based controller for the integrated renewable power generation system. The system proposed uses DK4 (Celoxica) design and modelling software environment based on Handel-C/VHDL programming languages for the rapid prototyping of an FPGA controller.