Integration of Renewable Energy Project: A Technical Proposal for Rural Electrification to Local Communities

• Main Authors: Muhammad Zeeshan Malik, Amjad Ali, Ghulam Sarwar Kaloi, Amir Mahmood Soomro, Mazhar Hussain Baloch, Sohaib Tahir Chauhdary
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 2020-01-01
• Series: IEEE Access
• Subjects: Environmental challenges; wind power integration; Weibull/Rayleigh distribution technique; wind zone; rural electrification; renewable energy
• Online Access: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9091138/

The increasing environmental awareness across the globe is leading towards a green and clean world. Currently, Pakistan is going through an acute energy crisis; it is an on-going challenge for the government to provide uninterrupted power supply at economical rates to its citizens and potential industrial investors, now and in future. Thus, this energy scenario necessitates the incorporation of renewable energy technologies with power systems to enhance its generation capacity, and to overcome electricity outage of approximately 8-12 hours, in the country. In this paper, the authors encouraged the state policy for utilizing the wind energy for power generation, which is freely available across 1600 km long coastal belt of Pakistan. For this purpose, wind potential is explicitly evaluated across Sindh and Baluchistan provinces in Pakistan. The energy generated by various wind turbine prototypes is employed to suggest the most optimum location through optimal probability function. Moreover, this study provides an evocative progression based on real-time wind data to integrate wind power for rural electrification across the coastal zones of Pakistan. This study is expected to play an imperative role in incorporating wind farms on proposed sites to facilitate investors interested in investing in Pakista's energy sector.