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Hybrid PV/Wind/Diesel Based Distributed Generation for an Off-Grid Rural Village in Afghanistan
Author(s)
Gul Ahmad Ludin, Hidehito Matayoshi, Mir Sayed Shah Danish, Atsushi Yona and Tomonobu Senjyu
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DOI:10.17265/1934-8975/2017.02.003
Affiliation(s)
Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa 903-0213, Japan
ABSTRACT
Afghanistan has a tremendous
resource potential of renewable energy especially solar and the wind.
Therefore, utilization of these resources has a special rule for the remote
areas where access to the electrical grid or secure power supply is a dream for
most of the people. This paper presents a feasibility and usefulness of hybrid power generation
based on PV/wind/diesel generator for an off-grid rural village that feeds the
load at a rate of average 7.9 kWh/day with 1.32
kW peak load. GsT
(geospatial toolkit) is used to obtain the solar and
wind data of the site. Windographer software is used to analyze the wind
resource data of the site. HOMER Pro software package is used to select the
suitable and reliable hybrid generation system and calculate the optimal
capacities and costs of the components. Through the study, it is found that
this state of the art adaptation could provide vast opportunities for off-grid
rural communities such as in Afghanistan where enough high penetration of
renewable energy is available.
KEYWORDS
Rural village electrification, hybrid power generation, solar, wind, diesel generator.
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