Sustainable Integrated Renewable Energy System for a Cluster of Remote Villages in Indian Context

The primary concern of the Nations worldwide has been the growing energy demand. The present study has identified cluster of remote villages nearby Sringeri place, chickmagalur district of Karnataka state, India, for the assessment of Resources and their sustainability. HOMER based Simulation were carried out on PV-WIND-MH-HK systems considering the Two different Load strategies as Development side Load strategy and Demand side Load strategy. The possible resources combinations were investigated on the basis of Net Present Cost (NPC) and Cost of Energy (COE) for obtaining the optimal results. The results showed that Development side load strategy was optimal for PV-MH-HK combination with $218,191.5 and $0.167/kWh for NPC and COE values. On the contrary, Demand-side Load strategy yielded values of NPC and COE as $121,825 and $ 0.159/KWh respectively. From the results it has shown that the WIND resource is not a suitable option for the integration due to low wind energy Potential. Multiyear year simulations taking 10 year period shows that 4.46% increase in the COE and the energy production is dropped by 4.64%.