Design of a hybrid power system using Homer Pro and iHOGA

Iqbal, Tariq and Ogbikaya, Stephen (2021) Design of a hybrid power system using Homer Pro and iHOGA. In: 30th IEEE NECEC Conference, November 18, 2021, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.

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Abstract

In this paper, a hybrid power system is designed for a house in St. John’s. House located in Newfoundland is designed using the Energy 3D software and the annual energy (kWh) demand for the house is determined. The hybrid power system to meet this energy demand is designed and simulated using both Homer (Hybrid Optimization of Multiple Electric Renewables) Pro software and iHOGA (improved hybrid optimization genetic algorithm) software. Analysis reveals that for Homer Pro software, 95.8% (52,566kWh/yr) of the total annual energy is produced by the wind turbine and 4.2% (2,308kWh/yr) is produced by the solar cells. For the iHOGA software, 85.7% (8,188.6kWh/yr) of the total annual energy is produced by the wind turbine and 14.3% (1,361.6kWh/yr) is produced by the solar cells. Further analysis indicates that it more economical to design the hybrid power system in iHOGA software. However, irrespective of the software used in the system design, the energy generated for the isolated system is more than the energy demand of the house thus leaving excess electricity that can be sold to the grid system.

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