Saint Martin’s island is the largest
offshore island of
Bangladesh which is one of the most beautiful tourist spots in the world.
But as the
island is far
away from the
mainland,it is
not connected to
the main grid
of the country.
This paper proposes
an optimized stand-alone
green hybrid system to supply
electricity for the inhabitants & tourists of the island.Considering 1000
households for all of its
inhabitants and 200 hotel rooms
for tourists, the
average daily load
is 1135.82kWh/day with
an annual peak
load of 227.76
kW. The aim of this paper
is to design
the most cost
efficient optimized stand-alone green
hybrid system which
provides zero emission
and 100% renewable fraction.
HOMER(Hybrid Optimization Model for Multiple
Energy Resources) is
used to design
this system.The simulation
results show that a hybrid
system with 659 kWPV
array, 3073 strings of batteries, 245 kW converter forms the most optimized
stand-alone system with
COE(Cost of Energy)of $0.266 and
NPC(Net Present Cost) of $1379832. Significantly,energy cost of
the proposed system is viable in context with socio-economic
condition of the country which will eventually provide the power
solution maintaining the
scenic beauty of
the island.