Microgrid System for A Rural Area - An Analysis of HOMER Optimised Model Using MATLAB

Abstract

There have been many methods of attaining a suitable combination of renewable energy sources. This work analyses the stability of one such system optimised by HOME-Rquickstart for a small community at Gurmia, India; on the occurrence of faults. The chosen location has a fair potential of solar and wind energy, trapping of these resources efficiently in the form of hybrid microgrid systems could solve major power issues and in the same time supersede the old grids. This work involves simulation of an optimised model obtained from HOMERquickstart package using Simulink. Various cases are considered in interlinking of the energy sources for the microgrid and their respective transient behaviour in the occurrence of faults are observed.