Feasibility Study of PV/Wind Hybrid System with Recycled Retired Electric Vehicle Batteries

The island mode Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems (HRES) are gaining more attention for rural electrification in remote areas. However, the island mode of HRES should be equipped with bulk storage backup due to the intermittent nature of renewable sources. So the adapted storage technology has a considerable effect on the overall cost of the HRES. In this paper, the recycling of Retired Electric Vehicles Batteries (REVBs) is used as an alternate solution for conventional battery storage technology in the HRES application. In this proposed case study, the feasibility analysis of the island mode of solar PV/Wind/REVB has been carried out with the Teaching Learning Based (TLBO) Algorithm. The Levelized Cost of Energy (LCE) and Net Present Cost (NPC) are used as the economic indicator to evaluate the economic benefits of the system while to Loss of Power Supply (LPSP) is a constraint. Further, the obtained results have been compared with PSO algorithms and included comparative results in the results section.