Microsoft Excel Based Tool Kit For Planning Hybrid Energy Systems

The Asian Development Bank has implemented a regional technical assistance to develop small hybrid renewable energy systems that will provide reliable, adequate, and affordable energy for inclusive growth in Asian rural areas, and enable access to electricity and energy efficiency in remote rural locations and small isolated islands. This guide was prepared as part of knowledge development activities of the technical assistance, and is intended to support planning hybrid renewable energy systems based on experiences of pilot projects in South Asian developing member countries. It will help find the most cost-effective configuration for a hybrid renewable energy stand-alone system through simulation of operation for each possible configuration of the system.

Hybrid Energy System Models presents a number of techniques to model a large variety of hybrid energy systems in all aspects of sizing, design, operation, economic dispatch, optimization and control. The book's authors present a number of new methods to model hybrid energy systems and several renewable energy systems, including photovoltaic, solar plus wind and hydropower, energy storage, and combined heat and power systems. With critical modeling examples, global case studies and techno-economic modeling integrated in every chapter, this book is essential to understanding the development of affordable energy systems globally, particularly from renewable resources. With a detailed overview and a comparison of hybrid energy systems used in different regions, as well as innovative hybrid energy system designs covered, this book is useful for practicing power and energy engineers needing answers for what factors to consider when modeling a hybrid energy system and what tools are available to model hybrid systems. Combines research on several renewable energy systems, energy storage, and combined heat and power systems into a single informative resource on hybrid energy systems Includes significant global case studies of current and novel modeling techniques for comparison Covers numerical simulations of hybrid systems energy modeling and applications

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Join INL, PNNL, and NREL, with support from our academic and industry partners, for a 2-day webinar to learn more about the benefits of hybrid energy systems, considerations for designing the right system for your community, and practical tools that can help with the design and development process. In this webinar, you will learn about tools and resources to make a hybrid energy system development plan and understand how a good design can help secure investments, including infrastructure funding from the federal government. This webinar will focus on how to use value streams and system constraints and resilience goals to inform decision making for the proposed system.

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