Power supply for an island house from renewable energy sources

Renewable energy sources are increasingly being used to supply electricity, especially for smaller family homes on remote locations. The goal of this work is to find the most cost-effective way of supplying electricity to a household in a certain island location, using solar energy. Several variants of electricity production will be analysed, for the energy supply of an average household with a consumption of 6.5 kW. The basic variant of supplying the household with electricity is an independent solar power plant. In doing so, specific software tools are used to obtain a graph of the expected monthly energy production for the previously defined power of the solar power plant, in order to determine whether the power plant meets the needs throughout the year. Another variant for the production of electricity is a hybrid combination of a solar power plant and a diesel generator, which is also often used. Then the power of the solar power plant decreases, and thus the initial investment costs. Since the power of the solar power plant has been reduced, it no longer meets the required monthly electricity production, so the diesel generator is used to compensate for the energy production. The third variant analysed is a hybrid combination of a solar power plant and a wind turbine. Also with the reduced power of the solar power plant, and the compensation of electricity production with a wind turbine. Such a combination is also suitable for islands, because the wind speeds are the highest in the months with the lowest energy production from the solar power plant.