Design and Simulation of Renewable Energy Resources for Micro Grid Based Rural Electrification in Ethiopia

Abiy Mokennen Weldegiyorgis; Ravikumar Hiremath; Derje Shiferaw

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Design and Simulation of Renewable Energy Resources for Micro Grid Based Rural Electrification in Ethiopia

Abiy Mokennen Weldegiyorgis, Ravikumar Hiremath, Derje Shiferaw

Published in American Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems (Volume 10, Issue 4)

Received: 2 June 2021 Accepted: 9 July 2021 Published: 22 July 2021

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Abstract

Ethiopia is a developing country where the majority of the community lives in rural areas without electricity from the grid because of unfavorable condition of the remote area. It is necessary to supply the energy needs of this rural population for better advantages; by integrates multiply stand-alone renewable energy sources. Further, the power management of these renewably energy systems is a vital. On this research we deals with modeling & simulation of photovoltaic, micro-hydro and, storage based power generation system in MATLAB/Simulink. The power generated from these combined three renewable energy sources through intelligent decision serves for selected kebele loads. This kebele (selected village) has 5.46KWhr/m²/day amount yearly average solar radiation and 12.241l/s average flow rate. 64KW primary peak load was considered for 180 model households. The optimization result of HOMER 10KW PV, 50.4KW micro-hydro, and 18KW fuel cell optimal design is developed for electrifying the study area, for the investment cost, total present cost and unit cost of $160,780, $269,054 $0.059 respectively. Then to use the three energy resources efficiently, fuzzy logic controller based intelligent decision was used for monitoring the type and amount of resources available, as per the demand and available sources.

Published in	American Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems (Volume 10, Issue 4)
DOI	10.11648/j.epes.20211004.11
Page(s)	51-59
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Fuzzy Logic, Mat Lab, Micro-grid, Renewable Energy Resources, Load Response

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Abiy Mokennen Weldegiyorgis; Ravikumar Hiremath; Derje Shiferaw. Design and Simulation of Renewable Energy Resources for Micro Grid Based Rural Electrification in Ethiopia. Am. J. Electr. Power Energy Syst. 2021, 10(4), 51-59. doi: 10.11648/j.epes.20211004.11

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Abiy Mokennen Weldegiyorgis, Ravikumar Hiremath, Derje Shiferaw. Design and Simulation of Renewable Energy Resources for Micro Grid Based Rural Electrification in Ethiopia. Am J Electr Power Energy Syst. 2021;10(4):51-59. doi: 10.11648/j.epes.20211004.11

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Abiy Mokennen Weldegiyorgis

Departement of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Addis Ababa Science and Technology University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Ravikumar Hiremath

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Adama Science and Technology University, Adama, Ethiopia
Derje Shiferaw

School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Addis Ababa Institute of Technology, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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