Sizing and Performance Analysis of a Standalone Hybrid Renewable Energy System in the Far North Region of Cameroon
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Abstract
This paper aims to size and analyze a standalone hybrid renewable energy system in the Far North Region of Cameroon, where some rural areas are not electrified. The system’s power can be supplied by solar panels (PVs) and/or wind turbines (WTs). Moreover, batteries are used to store the surplus of energy and mitigate power production variations. The optimal system designed to have the minimum cost and a loss of power supply probability below 5% includes 6 PVs, 1 battery and no WT. Simulations of the system taking into account fluctuations of the climatological conditions are performed to run a sensitivity analysis using criteria such as the loss of power supply probability (LPSP), the relative excess of energy, the level of autonomy, the mean duration, the number of intervals and the total time with loss of power. The results show that the cost of adding 2 PVs to the optimal configuration in to reduce the LPSP of 1% is lower than the cost of adding 1 WT which is itself lower than the cost of adding 1 battery (respective costs being 6.24C$/%, 83.62C$/% and 16.3C$/%).
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Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
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| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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