{"title":"Techno-economic feasibility study of solar PV and biomass-based electricity generation for rural household and farm in Botswana","authors":"M. Abdulah, T. Matlokotsi, S. Chowdhury","doi":"10.1109/POWERAFRICA.2016.7556572","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Electrification of rural households is of key importance for Africa's economic growth, particularly for developing countries such as Botswana. This paper carries out a techno-economic feasibility study of a solar biomass hybrid system with and without energy storage to supply load demand. The case studies were performed using HOMER software, choosing Phakalane, a village of Botswana as a location. Various scenarios were investigated such as; solar standalone system with and without energy storage, hybrid solar-biomass system with and without energy storage as well as its integration to the grid. It is concluded that a hybrid solar-biomass system with energy storage is the most technically and economically feasible system with various optimized components.","PeriodicalId":177444,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE PES PowerAfrica","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2016-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"4","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2016 IEEE PES PowerAfrica","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/POWERAFRICA.2016.7556572","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Electrification of rural households is of key importance for Africa's economic growth, particularly for developing countries such as Botswana. This paper carries out a techno-economic feasibility study of a solar biomass hybrid system with and without energy storage to supply load demand. The case studies were performed using HOMER software, choosing Phakalane, a village of Botswana as a location. Various scenarios were investigated such as; solar standalone system with and without energy storage, hybrid solar-biomass system with and without energy storage as well as its integration to the grid. It is concluded that a hybrid solar-biomass system with energy storage is the most technically and economically feasible system with various optimized components.
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