Design and Simulation of Wind and Solar Hybrid System

Abstract

The energy demand is increasing now which is forcing us to generate the power using other sources considering conventional and non-conventional sources. Most of the power across nation is generated by means of fossil-fuels resulting into huge amount of carbon emissions in the environment. This suggests the power producers to move towards the Green Power Technology. This thesis supports the different technology for the power generation, i.e., Wind and Solar Hybrid System. The Hybrid System is the integration of two or more energy sources like Photovoltaic (PV) system, wind energy conversion (WECS) system, fuel cells etc. This thesis is aimed at simulation of a hybrid energy system, combining wind energy and solar energy, which is capable to fulfill the need of the power demands usually at remote areas or the power demands in stand alone condition. The system consists of a PV solar panel, Wind turbine, Wind generators, DC-DC Boost converter, inverter and load. The Maximum power point tracking (MPPT) technique is used to track maximum power from individual energy system in order to make entire system more efficient. The simulations are performed in the MATLAB SIMULINK software.