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ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING | RESEARCH ARTICLE

Power quality analysis of hybrid renewable energy

system
Rinchin W. Mosobi1*, Toko Chichi1 and Sarsing Gao1
Received: 04 July 2014
Accepted: 16 December 2014
*Corresponding author: Rinchin W.
Mosobi, Department of Electrical
Engineering, North Eastern Regional
Institute of Science and Technology,
Nirjuli, Arunachal Pradesh 791 109,
India
E-mail: [email protected]
Reviewing editor:
Duc Pham, University of Birmingham,
UK
Additional information is available at
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Abstract:An hybrid renewable energy sources consisting of solar photovoltaic, wind

energy system, and a microhydro system is proposed in this paper. This system is
suitable for supplying electricity to isolated locations or remote villages far from the
grid supply. The solar photovoltaic system is modeled with two power converters, the
first one being a DC-DC converter along with an maximum power point tracking to
achieve a regulated DC output voltage and the second one being a DC-AC converter
to obtain AC output. The wind energy system is modeled with a wind-turbine prime
mover with varying wind speed and fixed pitch angle to drive an self excited induction
generator (SEIG). Owing to inherent drooping characteristics of the SEIG, a closed
loop turbine input system is incorporated. The microhydro system is modeled with
a constant input power to drive an SEIG. The three different sources are integrated
through an AC bus and the proposed hybrid system is supplied to R, R-L, and induction
motor loads. A static compensator is proposed to improve the load voltage and current
profiles; it also mitigates the harmonic contents of the voltage and current. The static
synchronous compensator is realized by means of a three-phase IGBT-based currentcontrolled voltage source inverter with a self-supporting DC bus. The complete system
is modeled and simulated using Matlab/Simulink. The simulation results obtained
illustrate the feasibility of the proposed system and are found to be satisfactory.
Subjects: Technology; Engineering & Technology; Electrical & Electronic Engineering;
Electrical Engineering Communications

Sarsing Gao

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

PUBLIC INTEREST STATEMENT

Sarsing Gao is working as associate professor

in the Department of Electrical Engineering at
North Eastern Regional Institute of Science and
Technology, Nirjuli, Arunachal Pradesh, India. He is
a senior member of IEEE. His areas of interest are
electrical machines, energy, distributed generation
and power quality.

This paper details the possible ways of integrating

renewable energy sources which may be called a
hybrid renewable energy system (HRES). The recent
research in the field of HRES shows the possibility
of integrating either photovoltaic (PV)wind or
PVmicrohydro or windmicrohydro as a hybrid
system. In this paper, the possibility of integrating
three renewable energy sources namely, PVwind
microhydro power generation system is presented.
It aims at supplying electricity to remote villages
which are far from the grid supply. Since power
quality is a major issue in such a system, the same
is analyzed. MATLAB/Simulink is used for modeling
the system and studying various performance
characteristics of the system under different
electric loads. A static synchronous compensator
(STATCOM) is incorporated to improve the voltage
profile at the load end thereby achieving an
improved power quality of the supply.

2015 The Author(s). This open access article is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution
(CC-BY) 4.0 license.

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Keywords: Renewable energy system; maximum power point tracking; boost converter;
solar photovoltaic; wind energy; self-excited induction generator; STATCOM; total
harmonic distortion

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1. Introduction
Unlike the conventional energy sources, the non-conventional energy sources are clean, reliable,
and abundant in nature. The environmental degradation such as pollution, global warming, and
greenhouse gas emissions which are caused by conventional sources of energy and accelerated
by ever-growing industrial activities throughout the world is a concern for all. The current
researches, therefore, lay emphasis on harnessing renewable energy sources (RES) for generating
electricity to supply power especially, to rural consumers where grid connection is not available.
For such locations, decentralized power generation using available dispersed RES is a better and
workable solution. It is shown that power generation from combined RES such as wind and
hydro could make a power system more cost-effective and environmental friendly (Nejad, Radzi,
Kadir, & Hizam, 2012). A technological innovation, however, is needed to utilize these energy
sources to an optimum level and to obtain greater efficiency. The combined system is likely to
improve the generating capacity as well the reliability of the power supply. A feasibility study of
solarwinddiesel hybrid system is carried out in (Lipu, Uddin, & Miah, 2013) with promising
results but for the increased cost of diesel oil and associated environmental pollution caused
due to operation of diesel engine. Thus, the system considered may not be of much help. As
reported, a windmicrohydro hybrid system when operated in grid connected mode using
back-to-back connected power converters may improve the power system reliability (Goel,
Singh, Murthy, & Kishore, 2011). The reliability and cost-effectiveness of integrated renewable
energy system at remote and distant places is evaluated using optimization technique (Bansal,
Khatod, & Saini, 2014) with fairly good results. However, it is found that not many works have
been done on the power quality analysis of integrated renewable energy system using solar,
wind, and microhydro energy sources. This system could be very successful especially in the
sub-tropical region where there is sufficient rainfall.
A solar PV arrays with maximum power point tracking (MPPT) can generate electricity on large
scale (Gera, Rai, Parvej, & Soni, 2013). With the development of large wind turbine generators and
advancement in solid-state devices, wind energy system (WES) has become one of the most viable
options of generating energy. However, due to the intermittent nature of wind speed, it calls for
tracking of maximum power point of operation (Villalva, Gazoli, & Ruppert, 2009; Villalva, Gazoli, &
Filho, 2009). Power generation from mini- or microhydro is a well-proven technology (International
Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), 2012).
In this paper, a HRES comprising photovoltaic (PV) system, wind-turbine generator system, and a
microhydro system is proposed. The proposed system is a combination of 15 2 PV arrays with
variable temperature and irradiance, a variable-speed wind-turbine coupled to self -excited induction
generator (SEIG) and a constant power microhydro system coupled to SEIG. The performances of the
hybrid system under various loads namely, induction motor (IM) load, resistive (R), and R-L load are
presented. The reactive power compensation using static synchronous compensator (STATCOM) is
presented. The STATCOM is observed to be working well thereby regulating the terminal voltage and
reducing the harmonic contents of the system voltage and current.

2. Solar PV system
2.1. System description
A PV cell is basically a semiconductor diode whose p-n junction is exposed to light. When the irradiance falls on the surface of the solar cell, it absorbs photons and excites electron-hole pair separation to produce electromotive force.

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Figure 1. Equivalent circuit

diagram of a PV cell.

Figure 1 shows the equivalent circuit of the ideal PV cell including series (Rs) and parallel (Rp) resistances which actually represents the contact and junction resistances. From the basic equation of
semiconductors, the IV characteristics of the ideal PV cell may be written as

)
]
qV
I = Ipv,cell Io,cell exp
1
aKT

(1)

Id

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where Ipv,cell is the current generated by the incident light, Id is the diode current, Io,cell is the reverse
saturation current or leakage current of the diode, q is the electron charge, k is Boltzmann constant,
T (in Kelvin) is the temperature of the p-n junction, and a is the diode ideality factor. Figure 2 shows
the ideal IV characteristics of a solar PV module.

2.2. Modeling PV array

The actual PV array is designed using series and parallel combination of various solar cells to meet
the desired performance. The modeling of a PV module and an array, therefore, depends on number
of cells connected in series/parallel in a module and the number of modules connected in series/
parallel in an array. Series connection of solar array is employed to increase the system voltage,
while parallel connection gives higher total current (Villalva et al., 2009).
Actual PV arrays, therefore, requires inclusion of additional parameters to Equation 1. Thus,

[
(
)
]
V + RS I
V + Rs I
I = Ipv Io exp
1
Vt a
Rp

(2)

where, Ipv and Io are the PV and saturation currents of the array and Vt =

Ns KT
q

is the thermal voltage

of the array with Ns connected in series. If the array is composed of Npp parallel connection of
modules, the PV and saturation currents may be expressed as Ipv = Ipv,cell Npp, Io = Io,cell Npp. In
Equation 2, Rs is the equivalent series resistance of the array and Rp is the equivalent parallel
resistance. Rs and Rp are expressed as

Nss
Npp

Rs and

Nss
Npp

Rp, respectively. Equation 2 gives rise to

IV curve shown in Figure 3. This curve depends on internal characteristics of the device such as Rs
and Rp and on external influences such as irradiance level and temperature. The solar PV array in this
paper is modeled for Npp=15 and Nss=2. The light-generated current of the PV cell depends linearly
on solar irradiation and is influenced by temperature as,

(
)
G
Ipv = Ipv,n + KI T
Gn

(3)

Figure 2. IV characteristics of
the PV cell.

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Figure 3. IV characteristics of
the PV array.

where, Ipv,n is the light-generated current at the nominal condition, T=T Tn, where T and Tn are the
actual and nominal temperatures, G (in W/m) is the irradiance on the device surface and Gn is the
nominal irradiance.
The diode saturation current Io and its dependence on the temperature may be expressed as

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Io =

exp

Isc,n + KI T
( V + K T )
oc,n

aVt

(4)

where, KI is current coefficient, KV is voltage coefficient, Isc,n is short circuit current at nominal
condition, Voc,n is open circuit voltage at nominal condition, a is ideality factor, and Vt is thermal
voltage.
Figures 4 and 5 show the simulated values of IV and PV characteristics of the PV array considered
in this work. From Figure 4, it is observed that with decreasing irradiance, there is a negligible change
in the maximum output voltage and there is a marginal decrement in output current and a noticeable
drop in the maximum power point (MPP).
Figure 4. (a) IV and (b) PV
curve of a PV array with
variable irradiance.

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Figure 5. (a) PV and (b) IV

curve of a PV array with
variable temperature.

Figure 5 shows that for a fixed irradiance value as the cell temperature decreases, a small
decrement in the output current occurs with an increment in output voltage and corresponding
increase in MPP.
Table 1 shows the parameters of the PV array obtained from datasheet of Kyocera KC200GT at
standard test condition (STC) of 25C and 1,000W/m. The KC Series solar modules of Kyocera have
multicrystalline silicon solar cell with an efficiency of over 16%. The same PV modules have been
considered in this study (Kyocera KC200GT, xxxx).

Table 1. Parameters of KC200GT array at 25 C, 1000W/m2 (Kyocera KC200GT, xxxx)

Parameters
Voc

KC200GT
32.9V

Isc

8.21A

KV

0.1230V/K

KI

0.0032A/K

Pmax

200.143W

Rp

415.405

Rs

0.221

1.3

Ns

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where, Voc = open circuit voltage, Isc = short circuit current, KV = temperature coefficient of Voc,
KI = temperature coefficient of Isc, Pmax = maximum power, Rs = series resistance, Rp = parallel
resistance, a=ideality factor and Ns=number of cells in series. Combining Equations 3 and 4, a new
expression is obtained as

Nss
Nss
V
+
R
V
+
R

s
s
Npp
Npp
I 1
I = Ipv Npp Io Npp exp
I

Vt aNss
N
Rp N ss

pp

(5)

where, Ipv is PV current of the array, Io is diode saturation current, a is ideality factor, Vt is thermal
voltage, I is output current and V is output voltage.

2.3. Power conditioning system

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The power-conditioning system includes a boost converter with MPPT, a three-phase CC-VSI, and an
LC filter. The input to boost converter is an unregulated DC voltage obtained directly from the PV
array and therefore, it is likely to fluctuate due to variations in the incident solar radiation, also called
irradiance and temperature. Thus, the average DC output voltage must be regulated to get the
desired constant value throughout its operation. The MPPT used is based on perturbation and
observation (P & O) technique (Kondawar & Vaidya, 2012). For a PV array with operating voltage as
dP
= 0 with its sign defined by
V and current as I, the power is P=VI. At the maximum power point,
dV

1 dP
dI
I
=
+
V dV
dV V

(6)

Figure 6 shows the flowchart of P & O algorithm. The MPPT feeds the desired PV array voltage to the
boost converter through change in duty cycle as a gating signal (Villalva et al., 2009). A change in
applied voltage and current results in changed value of power. If the power increases, voltage and
current increases in the same direction and vice versa.
The boost converter shown in Figure 7 works in two modes:
Mode 1 (0 < t ton):

Figure 6. Flowchart of P & O

method.

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Figure 7. Circuit diagram of

step-up DC-DC converter.

Id

Vin

Switch

Vi

Pulses

Mode 1 begins when IGBTs is switched on at t=0 and terminates at t=ton. The inductor current IL(t)
greater than zero and ramp up linearly. The inductor voltage is Vi.

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Mode 2 (ton < t < Ts):

Mode 2 begins when IGBTs is switched off at t=ton and terminates at t=ts. The inductor current
decrease until the IGBT is turned on again during the next cycle. The voltage across the inductor in
this period is Vi Vo (Hasaneen & Mohammed, 2008; Rashid, 1993).
In steady-state condition, time integral of the inductor voltage over one time period must be zero.

(
)
Vi ton + Vi Vo toff = 0

(7)

where, Vi is the input voltage, Vo is the average output voltage, ton is the switching-on time of the
IGBT, and toff is the switching-off time of the IGBT.
Dividing both sides by Ts and rearranging the terms yield

T
Vo
1
= s =
toff
Vi
1D

(8)

where, Ts is the switching period (s) and D is the duty cycle.

The output of three-phase CC-VSI is fed to the AC bus through LC filter. The configuration of threephase CC-VSI is shown in Figure 8 (Rashid, 1993).

3. Wind and micro hydro system

A SEIG is employed for both wind and micro hydro systems. The reason for using SEIG is due to
its lower unit cost compared to the conventional synchronous generator, maintenance free
operation, and its inherent protective characteristics in case of short circuit on lines (Murthy,
Jose, & Singh, 1998). For modeling SEIG the main flux path saturation is accounted for while the
saturation in the leakage flux path of magnetic core of the machine, the iron loss, and the
rotational losses are neglected (Molina, dos Santos, & Pacas, 2010). The equivalent circuit of SEIG
is shown in Figure 9.
From the equivalent circuit, it can be deduced as,

Rs
+ jXls + ZL + Zr
F

where, ZL =

jXC RL

(F 2 RL jFXC )

Is = 0
and Zr =

(9)
jXm Rr Xm Xlr (Fv)
j (Xm +Xlr )(Fv)+Rr

Under self excitation conditions,

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Figure 8. Configuration of
three-phase VSI with LC filter.

+
Q1

Q3

Q5

AC Bus
D1

D3

D5

Vdc
Q4

Q6
D4

FILTER

Q2
D6

D2

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Figure 9. Equivalent circuit of

CAG.

Rs
+ jXls + ZL + Zr = 0
F

(10)

where, Vg is the air-gap voltage, Vph is the phase voltage, v is the speed, and F is the frequency.
For any speed v, Equation 10 may be solved for Xm and F using NewtonRaphson iteration method
which is ideal for finding solution of non-linear equations or any other known methods of solving
non-linear equations with the starting values being taken as the unsaturated value of Xm, and F
equal to v. Using these values of Xm and F, the total performance of the machine can be evaluated in
conjunction with the measured variation of Xm with Vg/F for the generator being considered.
In wind energy conversion system, a variable speed variable frequency scheme is proposed due to its
ability of efficient energy conversion. The system is operated over a wide range of speed without
employing pitch control mechanism for the wind turbine. Voltage build-up is achieved by connecting
excitation capacitors across the stator terminals. According to wind speed cube law, the power,
P developed by the wind turbine of blade diameter, d at a wind speed, s is given by (Raina & Malik, 1983).

P=

1
d2 Cp s3
8

(11)

where, is the density of air and Cp is the power coefficient which is the ratio of shaft power to wind
power.
The microhydro system is modeled with a hydro turbine driven SEIG. The input to the turbine is
from flowing stream with proper civil works in order to maintain constant flow so that the input
power to the hydro turbine remains constant. Finally, the AC output from wind and microhydro
systems is integrated with the PV system and the combination is brought out to a common AC bus.

4. Static synchronous compensator (STATCOM)

The proposed STATCOM is a three-legged IGBT based CC-VSI with a DC link capacitor and an AC
filtering inductances (Lf, Rf). The DC bus capacitor is used to offer self-support to the DC bus of the
compensator. The fluctuation in capacitance voltage is due to power consumed by the devices in the
VSI and filter resistance. It is essential to find out the real and reactive power requirement of
the hybrid system to maintain balanced voltages and current at the load side. First, the fluctuation in
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the DC link capacitor voltage is monitored. This is an index of the imbalance in real power or indirectly
it is an indication of direct axis component of current, Id. Next, the peak value of the line-to-line
voltage from the integrated system is computed. This is compared with the reference or expected
value. The difference between these two quantities is an indication of the reactive power required by
the system or indirectly this will be the amount of quadrature current, Iq to be supplied by the system.
These two axes reference currents namely Id and Iq are converted into three-phase form by Inverse
Parks transformation. The cos(t) and sin(t) terms needed for Parks transformation are derived
with the help of a phase locked loop which is fed with unit templates of line voltages from the source.
The three-phase reference currents thus obtained are compared with the actual currents from the
integrated system in a hysteresis current controller to yield the firing signals for the six devices in the
STATCOM. Figure 10 shows the schematic diagram of the CC-VSI unit (Gao, Bhuvaneswari, Murthy, &
Kalla, 2014; Goel et al., 2011).
Inverse Parks transformation (dq0-abc transformation) is represented as

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Idq0 = TIabc

cos (t)
2
=
sin (t)
3

cos t 2
3

sin t 2
3

2
2

cos t + 2
3 Ia

I
sin t + 2
3
b

2
Ic

(12)

5. Proposed integrated system and simulation results

The proposed scheme of integration of solar, wind, and microhydro is modeled and simulated in
Matlab/Simulink environment. The three different RES are connected to a common AC bus on to
which varying loads are connected (Mohammed, 2006; Sharaf & El-Sayed, 2009). The power quality
issues (Anees, 2012) like the system voltage and current regulation and harmonic reductions have
been analyzed with the help of a STATCOM.
Figure 11 shows the hybrid system proposed in this study. The simulink model of the system is
shown in Figure 12. Simulation is carried out initially with the three different sources independently
under no load conditions and eventually with the hybrid system through three-phase AC bus connected
to three-phase IM, R, and RL loads. The results are presented through Figures 1316.
Figure 10. Schematic diagram
of current-controlled voltage
source inverter (CC-VSI).

Vt (ref)
Vab
Vbc
Vca

Vt

Unit Voltage
Template
Generator

PI Controller
Iabc

Phase Lock Loop

(PLL)
Iabc (ref)

Pulses to VSI

Current
Regulator

Iq

dqo
abc

Id
PI Controller
+
-

Vdc(ref)

Vdc
Voltage Source Inverter
(VSI)

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It is clearly observed that the three different RES generates little over rated voltage of 459V (rms)
or 650 V (peak) under no load conditions. The frequency is maintained at 50 Hz. As seen from
Figure16, on connecting loads namely, IM, R, and R-L loads at 1.0, 1.2 and 1.4s, respectively, there
is a voltage drop in the system. The loads are switched out at 1.6s and the system rated voltage is
regained after sometime. A STATCOM is, therefore, connected to the system at 0.6s and the loads
are connected at the same instants. It is observed that the system voltage and frequency
is maintained at its rated value; in this case the voltage is 415V (rms) or 586V (peak). Figure 17
shows the voltage and current waveforms of the integrated system with STATCOM. It is observed
that the AC bus voltage is regulated with the use of STATCOM though a small amount of transient
current occurs at the time of switching in the STATCOM. The overall performance of the system is
observed to have been improved.

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Figure 11. Model of the

proposed standalone hybrid
solar, wind, and microhydro
system feeding three-phase
loads.

AC BUS

PHOTOVOLTAIC
SYSTEM

PV Array

DC-DC

Boost
Converter

DC-AC

Inverter

Filter

LC
Filter

MICRO HYDRO
SYSTEM
River

IG
Blade
Hydro
Turbine

AC-DC-AC
Conversion

Filter

WIND ENERGY
CONVERSION SYSTEM

STATCOM

LOAD 1

LOAD 2

LOAD 3

Figure 12. Simulink model of

hybrid PV, wind, and microhydro
system.

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Figure 13. Voltage and current

waveforms of PV array (a)
before DC-AC converter and (b)
after DC-AC converter under no
load conditions.

(a)

(b)

1000

Voltage (V)

500
0
-500

-1000

0.05

0.1

0.15
Time (sec)

0.2

0.25

0.3

0.05

0.1

0.15
Time (sec)

0.2

0.25

0.3

0.05

0.1

0.15

0.2

0.25

0.3

0.05

0.1

0.15
TIME (SEC)

0.2

0.25

0.3

0.05

0.1

0.2

0.25

0.3

0.05

0.1

0.2

0.25

0.3

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Current (A)

100
50
0
-50

-100

500
0
-500

50

CURRENT (A)

VOLTAGE (V)

(a)

0
-50

Voltage (V)

(b)
500
0
-500

Current (A)

Figure 14. Voltage and current

waveforms of (a) WES and (b)
MHS under no load conditions.

0.15

50
0
-50
0

0.15
Time (sec)

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500
Voltage (V)

Figure 15. Voltage and current

waveforms of hybrid system
under no-load condition.

0
-500
0.2

0.21

0.22

0.23

0.24

0.21

0.22

0.23

0.24

0.25

0.26

0.27

0.28

0.29

0.3

0.26

0.27

0.28

0.29

0.3

Current (A)

-5
0.2

500
0
-500
0.9

1.1

1.2

1.3
Time (sec)

1.4

1.5

1.6

1.7

1.1

1.2

1.3
Time (sec)

1.4

1.5

1.6

1.7

Current (A)

20

-20
0.9

1000
Voltage (V)

Figure 17. Voltage and current

waveforms of hybrid system
with STATCOM under IM, R, and
RL loads.

500
0
-500

-1000

0.6

0.8

1.2
Time (sec)

1.4

1.6

1.8

0.6

0.8

1.2
Time (sec)

1.4

1.6

1.8

50
Current (A)

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0.25
Time (sec)

1000
Voltage (V)

Figure 16. Voltage and current

waveforms of hybrid system
under IM, R, and RL loads.

-50

The total harmonic distortion (THD) is an important figure of merit used to quantify the level of
harmonics in voltage and current waveform. There exist two different definitions of THD, in the first
one the harmonic content is compared to the fundamental and in the second one to the rms value
of the waveform (Similovitz, 2005).
The THD (compared to fundamental) of the system voltages and currents under load conditions are
analyzed here and they are observed to be well within IEEE Standard 5191992. Figures 18 and 19
show the THD of system voltages and currents under IM, R, and R-L loads.

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Figure 18. THD of system

voltages under IM, R, and RL
loads.

Figure 19. THD of system

currents under IM, R, and RL
loads.

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6. Conclusions
In this work, an attempt has been made to investigate in detail the possibility of HRES as one of the
most effective ways of decentralized power generation. Besides increasing the generating capacity of
the energy sources, the scheme is envisaged to greatly liberate the rural populace of the perennial
energy demands. With the energy sources connected together, the reliability of the power system
increases. The power quality aspects are studied and with the use of STATCOM the voltage and current
regulations improves. The system voltage is well maintained at 415 V (rms) under different load
conditions. The harmonic content of the system voltages and currents is greatly reduced when loads
are connected. The THD of the voltages and currents are of the order of 0.11.3% and 0.070.7% for
IM, R, and RL loads, respectively. The voltage and frequency has been maintained constant under
different dynamic conditions. The integrated system along with the addition of STATCOM can be seen
as a viable option for supplying electricity to far flung areas.

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The authors received no direct funding for this research.
Author details
Rinchin W. Mosobi1
E-mail: [email protected]
Toko Chichi1
E-mail: [email protected]
Sarsing Gao1
E-mail: [email protected]
1
Department of Electrical Engineering, North Eastern Regional
Institute of Science and Technology, Nirjuli, Arunachal
Pradesh 791 109, India.
Citation information
Cite this article as: Power quality analysis of hybrid
renewable energy system, Rinchin W. Mosobi, Toko Chichi &
Sarsing Gao, Cogent Engineering(2015), 2: 1005000.
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Appendix
PV arrayTemperature(K)Solar
irradiance(W/m2)

25+273.15, 30+273.15, 35+273.15, 40+273.15200, 400, 600, 800

Boost converter

L=1mH, C=50F
L=10H, C=350F

LC filter
Wind speed(m/s )
Wind turbine

11, 10, 12, 13, 9, 11, 14Pn=1.5e 6, =0, =8.1, Cp=0.48, base power=1.67e 6VA,
base wind speed=12m/s

SEIG

Pn=7.5VA, V(L-L)=415V, Rs=0.9, Rr=0.66, Lls=0.00457H, Llr=0.00457H,

J=0.1384kgm2, F=0Nm, p=2

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