Computing Technologies for Renewable Energy Sources Integration

The present chapter is focused on various computing techniques used for the

performance evaluation of the integrated renewable energy system. Due to the

stochastic nature of major renewable energy sources, a single renewable energy sourcebased

system cannot provide an uninterrupted supply of electricity; hence, to attain

high energy security, it is necessary to oversize the rating of the generating system,

which in turn increases the overall cost of the system. On the other hand, the integrated

renewable energy system, which employs the potential of two or more renewable

energy sources to satisfy various energy demands, offers a better option than a single

renewable energy system in terms of efficiency, reliability, and cost. However, multisource-

based power generation is often more complex due to the involvement of a large

number of design parameters and variables. Hence, efficient computing techniques

must be used to evaluate the performance of the integrated renewable energy system. In

this chapter, the layout and configurations of the integrated renewable energy system

are introduced, and various computing technologies used to evaluate the performance

and sizing of the integrated renewable energy system are presented and discussed in

details. The proposed study will be beneficial to the researchers working on renewable

source-based stand-alone power generation for isolated areas.

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