Designing Off-Grid and On-Grid Renewable Energy Systems Using HOMER Pro Software

Abstract

The limited amount of fossil fuel, increasing demand of energy and global environmental issues for electricity generation is the main consideration for exploitation of renewable energy resources (RE). Improvements in photovoltaic technologies and wind turbine generators have given different opportunities for utilizing these renewable resources for electricity generation. The purpose of this paper is to calculate the energy demand, optimization, economic viability of system and evaluation of  designs for both off-grid and on-grid connected power systems for a range of applications and in order to know the cost of solar PV system by using Homer (Hybrid Optimization Model for Electric Renewable) software developed by National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), USA for the Economically, clean power and optimum utilization of renewable energy sources for Institute of Environmental Engineering & Management MUET Jamshoro Pakistan.

Keywords

• Optimization,Hybrid system,on-grid system,off-grid system

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