Feasibility Study on Hybrid Solar Photovoltaic with Diesel Generator and Battery Storage Design and Sizing Using HOMER Pro (R)

World energy outlook in its latest 2017 edition by the International Energy Agency (IEA) reported that the global energy demand is rising slowly compared to the past, but still expected an expansion of 30% in between today and 2040. Since energy demand and world population are exponentially growing, thus world cannot just depend on the exhaustible conventional sources to meet the demand. Renewable energy resources are the best alternative for conventional resources in meeting the world's increasing energy demand, mainly in electricity generation sector. Along with the expansion in the renewable energy technology, hybrid renewable energy system is configured in eliminating stand-alone drawbacks such as unpredictable power source, unreliable cost, and high initial and operational costs. This paper presents a study on a technique for hybrid renewable energy system design and sizing, and the feasibility of the system is determined using a hybrid optimisation of multiple energy resources pro (HOMER Pro (R)) software. HOMER Pro (R) software has been widely used in configuring an optimised system, considering all the equipment modelled and sized in an efficient technique and the output from HOMER Pro (R) study is discussed.