An isolated hybrid renewable energy system: Ha´apai island group in the Kingdom of Tonga

Author

Xueshu Cao ; Lapthorn, Andrew ; Peimankar, Abdolrahman

Author_Institution

Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

fYear

2014

Firstpage

102

Lastpage

107

Abstract

Hybrid renewable energy systems (HRES) have become more and more popular, especially for isolated regions. Various renewable energy resources are utilised to produce energy for different usage. This paper discusses the design of HRES for the Ha´apai island group. Possible renewable resources for electricity generation are investigated and the optimum system configuration at the lowest capital expenditure is obtained by HOMER software. Moreover, an analysis of the impact on diesel price and renewable penetration to HRES is presented, and the feasible option for Ha´apai is derived from system simulation.

Keywords

power engineering computing; pricing; renewable energy sources; HOMER software; HRES; Ha´apai island group; Kingdom of Tonga; diesel price; electricity generation; isolated hybrid renewable energy system; renewable energy resources; renewable penetration; renewable resources; Batteries; Electricity; Generators; Load modeling; Renewable energy sources; Wind speed; Wind turbines; HOMER; HRES; Ha´apai; optimum; renewable energy;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Engineering and Renewable Energy (ICPERE), 2014 International Conference on

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICPERE.2014.7067240

Filename

7067240