Abstract:
Stand-alone hybrid power systems has been attracting to supply energy to rural area in all
aspects like, sustainability, reliability, and environmental protection, for communities
living in areas where grid extension is not utilized.
In this thesis photovoltaic, wind turbine, converter, and battery bank have been simulated
and optimized using HOMERPro, which is used to generate feasible system with a
minimum cost of electricity for 750 house hold in the rural community of Bezawit
(outskirt from Dahir Dar city) in the regional state of Amhara, Ethiopia. And also these
thesis have been proposed Cuk and Sepic converter: the proposed converters have been
operates in both individual and simultaneous modes, and it eliminates the need of input
filter to suppress the high frequency harmonics. MPPT have been also realized for both
PV and wind sources by using perturb and observe method and Incremental conductance
method respectively. Then based on the dynamic component models, a simulation model
for the proposed hybrid PV/wind energy system using CUKSEPIC converters with
MPPT controller have been developed successfully using MATLAB/Simulink.
From HOMERPro simulation result, 10kW from wind turbine, 31.6kW photovoltaic
panel, 96 unit batteries, and 40.5kW converter was selected because of the minimum
cost. And also the cost of battery which is around $110,013.48 and converter is placed
with cost of $86,203.10, followed with PV cost of $72,194.52 and wind with
$31,558.98.And the power system Net present cost and the levelized COE are
$299,970.09 and $0.3846, respectively, with operating cost of $10,793.56. As a result
About72.5% of electricity is produced from PV array and 27.5% of electricity production
produced from wind.
MATLAB/Simulink simulation result shows that the overall system is efficient and
coordination control of the proposed converter are effective. Therefore the overall system
is efficient and cost effective.
Keywords: Hybrid, HOMERPro, Photovoltaic, Wind energy, Battery bank, CukSepic
converter, MATLAB/Simulink, Perturb and observe, Incremental conductance