Analysis of Standalone PV-Based Hybrid Systems for Power Generation in Rural Area

Renewable energy-based distributed power generators that are known for low pollution and low greenhouse effects are among the best known research interests of today’s literature. Considering the geographic location of Iran on the global radiation belt and the increasing attention on solar-cells for power provision in remote areas, this paper focuses on economic-environmental investigation of these systems in three sample rural cases in Saman city of Chaharmahal Va Bakhtiari province. For this purpose, we use HOMER software on the daily collected radiation data of the NASA website. The annual amount of power consumption for each household are collected from power bills. The results show that the cost of energies (COE) are 0.81, 1.35 and 0.79$ for Cham-e zin, Cham-e Ali and Chelevan, respectively. Also, the percentages of using solar cells are 97%, 57% and 96%, respectively and the rest of needed power is provided by diesel generators that results in 87.1, 3059 and 125 Kg CO2 emission. Generally, Cham-e zin is selected for an instance solar energy operation because of some environmental considerations and its dominant 3.7% generated power than exceeded generated power of Chelevan. The authors hope that this paper leads to a constant development and solves similar cases around the world.

کلیدواژه ها:

Total net present cost (TNPC) ، Sensitivity analysis ، Diesel price ، Global solar radiation