Optimal Power Management of an Educational Institution Using HOMER

This paper presents power management of an educational institution which is located in Bhimavaram, India. The institution is assumed as commercial load which is fed from an 11KV line the load deviations are mainly considered throughout the day time merely because of the institution’s working hours. This optimization comes with a bidirectional power flow from institution to the grid and grid to the institution. With a renewable power generation of solar plant with 100 kW generation the optimal power utilization is proposed such that the effective usage of renewable energy increases and the usage of fossil fuel-based generators decrease. In homer software the optimization of the given projected system is accomplished through simulation.