Potential of Renewable Energy in Al-Fourat Al-Awsat: Al Najaf City Case Study

Abstract

This paper reviews an analytical study of the hybrid power generation system in the al Najaf city at Iraq Country. The design and analysis of optimum choice to supply specific load (Renewable Energy center) building in the al Najaf city. The steps of this project consist of the measuring and collection of the basic meteorological data of solar radiation for al Najaf city, renewable energy software HOMER used for developing off-grid and on-grid system optimization simulation models. The simulation model has been used to find out the best result optimization based on energy efficient system for the specific load and taking into account costs and environmental emissions. Two reference models used to compare the costs and environmental impact. The optimization results indicate that the appropriate system for al Najaf Renewable energy center is consists of (81 kW PV, 58 kW Converter and 108 kW Grid) which have good components with the city requirements, this system would be cause reduction in CO2 by (174.38%) percentage.