Design and analysis of an autonomous wind-photovoltaic hybrid system.

This work is focused on the optimal sizing of hybrid stand-alone photovoltaic–wind power systems from real hourly wind and solar irradiation data and electricity demand from a specific location. For optimization method photovoltaic panels, wind turbine and batteries specifications have been used. Using all these data and parameters in computer model HOMER, the minimization of the net present cost (NPC) or cost of unit of energy (COE) is obtained by selecting an appropriate hybrid stand-alone system configuration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]