Optimization of a hybrid renewable energy system with HOMER

Abstract

Renewable energy harvesting is the best option as future energy source and there is no doubt about that. Greenhouse those are far from locality and offshore aqua farms, can make most efficient use of green energy harvesting. One negative approach about green energy that, it is unpredictable. So optimum planning of the resources to be included in a hybrid system and a determination of a perfect working strategy is very important. HOMER is one of the best used software for this optimum planning purpose due to its wide range of analyzing capacity and advanced prediction capability based on the sensitivity of the variables (sensitivity analysis). Moreover HOMER provides options to choose a perfect hybrid system from a large set of results arranged in the order of minimum to maximum cost of energy. This paper represents HOMER based optimum designing of a hybrid system including solar and wind resource for offshore area near about Suncheon, a city of South Korea.