Renewable energy-based hybrid system

Abstract

There is energy scarcity in rural India. Energy generation and transmission is very challenging area in today’s scenario energy supply in isolated rural areas by using small-scale power generation is found to be inexpensive and convenient alternative of grid utility. Under the present work, a systematic method has been established to develop a stand-alone renewable energy-based hybrid system for rural areas. In the stand-alone mode, energy supply to rural households can be achieved by single renewable energy technology or combinations of different available energy sources. Further, various criterions and parameters used for designing a hybrid energy system are discussed in detail. Different criterion includes economic, technical, power reliability, social aspects, and environmental aspects related to the hybrid system. Various challenges that deviates the development of the system are also discussed in the paper.