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Identifying and harnessing energy sources that offer sustainability and reliability have been and continue to be constant challenges in the search for renewable energy resources. Many remote areas of Iraq have grown in recent years; however, nothing has been done to upgrade the power-producing facilities and distribution networks, because updating the system is highly expensive and beyond the capability of a remote area. Renewable energy resources such as solar and wind energy are clean and can be used extensively. Combining these sources with storage batteries can result in better, cleaner, economical and more reliable results compared to a single source. This paper proposes techno-economically feasible and optimal sizing for each component of a hybrid system to generate electricity to a typical house in Zerbattiya, a village located in southeastern Iraq near the Iranian border. The proposed hybrid system is composed of PV, WT, BT, and converters. Results showed that the respective optimal values of Number of Photovoltaic (NPV) was (18), Number of Wind Turbine (NWT) was (6), Number of Batteries (NBT) was (50), Number of Converters was (4), Cost of Energy (COE) was (0.566 US$/KWh), Net Present Cost (NPC) was (87,111 US$), Initial Cost (IC) was (61,500 US$), and the Renewable Factor (RF) was (100%). |
