Abstract:
With higher depletion rates of fossil fuels and the ever growing environmental concerns on Green House
Gas (GHG) emissions it has become important to investigate the impact of Internal Combustion
Generator (ICG) capacity in Hybrid Energy System (HES)s for standalone applications. In order to
accomplish this objective HES modeling, simulation, and optimization was done for three different
system configurations based on the renewable energy source. Both mono and multi objective optimization
was carried out using Evolutionary Algorithm considering Levelized Energy Cost (LEC) and unmet
load fraction as objective functions. Results clearly depicts that seasonable variation of renewable energy
sources having a strong impact on system component selection under higher power supply reliability
which gradually reduce with the increase of ICG capacity.
Citation:
Perera, A. T. D., Wickremasinghe, D. M. I. J., Mahindarathna, D. V. S., Attalage, R. A., Perera, K. K. C. K., & Bartholameuz, E. M. (2012). Sensitivity of internal combustion generator capacity in standalone hybrid energy systems. Energy, 39(1), 403–411. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2011.12.039
