Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Power Engineering and Renewable Energy (ICPERE), 2014 International Conference on
DOI :
10.1109/ICPERE.2014.7067240
