HOMER PRO LARGE SYSTEM SOFTWARE

Providing grid electricity in remote areas is often associated with higher costs to the grid supplier. The price of conventional energy sources in remote areas, such as candles, paraffin, gas, coal, and batteries, is often more expensive than in places where most people live because of the remoteness of retailers. Isolated (remote) sites are locations far from the places where most people live and often lack grid power supply. A detailed design, description, and expected performance of the system were presented in this paper. The model was designed to provide an optimal system configuration based on an hour-by-hour data for energy availability and demands.

HOMER PRO LARGE SYSTEM SOFTWARE

Hybrid Optimization Model for Electric Renewables (HOMER) software was used to analyze and design the proposed stand-alone photovoltaic power system model. The patterns of load consumption within the orphanage were studied and suitably modeled for optimization. This study is based on modeling, simulation, and optimization of energy system in the orphanage. Solar resources for the design of the system were obtained from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Surface Meteorology and Solar Energy website at a location of 6в…1вЂІN latitude and 7вѓ5вЂІE longitude, with annual average solar radiation of 4.92вЂ‰kWh/m 2/d. This paper presented the simulation and optimization study of a stand-alone photovoltaic power system that produced the desired power needs of an orphanage.

Access to electricity can have a positive psychological impact through a lessening of the sense of exclusion, and vulnerability often felt by the orphanages.

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