Open AccessApplication of using Hybrid Renewable Energy in Saudi Arabia
Author(s) -
Essam A. AlAmmar,
N. H. Malik,
Mohammad Usman
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
engineering, technology and applied science research/engineering, technology and applied science research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2241-4487
pISSN - 1792-8036
DOI - 10.48084/etasr.33
Subject(s) - renewable energy , electricity , environmental economics , hybrid power , hybrid system , electricity generation , software , electric power system , computer science , power (physics) , business , engineering , electrical engineering , economics , physics , quantum mechanics , machine learning , programming language
One of the major world wide concerns of the utilities is to reduce the emissions from traditional power plants by using renewable energy and to reduce the high cost of supplying electricity to remote areas. Hybrid power systems can provide a good solution for such problems because they integrate renewable energy along with the traditional power plants. In Kingdom of Saudi Arabia a remote village called Al-Qtqt, was selected as a case study in order to investigate the ability to use a hybrid power system to provide the village with its needs of electricity. The simulation of this hybrid power system was done using HOMER software.