Electrification of Isolated Rural Areas Through Hybrid Wind/Solar/Diesel Micro Station A case study in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.

This paper presents a framework for the electrification of an isolated rural residential area through a decentralized hybrid renewable plus diesel energy system. Solar/wind/diesel power units have been combined to supply continuous electrical power to a small isolated rural community in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. The selection of the unit rates for an optimum cost -effective solution is evaluated. The framework activities include wind/solar speed/Radiation data collection via monitoring instruments on the test location and a time-based load forecasting calculation method. Based on the available data for the wind/solar attributes a control system is designed to manage the hourly synchronization of the three units. The system is tested by the MATLAB simulator with satisfactory results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]