DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A SOLAR PV MICROGRID: A CASE STUDY OF PALESTINE

Abstract

Microgrid is a power subsystem consist of small generators, storages and local loads. The attention to renewable resources and local generation is increasing for three important reasons: economics benefits, environmental matters and limits of fossil fuels. However, development of renewable resources in electrical power systems has been grown rapidly. Microgrid has the ability to support high power quality and sustainability with elimination of load shedding. This paper presents design and implementation of a real microgrid as per the recommended microgrid topology and dispatch methodology real Photovoltaic (PV) station with a local load using real data collected using different monitoring systems, the suggested microgrid is implemented and tested using MATLAB simulation tool, assuring power quality and sustainability, electrical and financial results are reported supporting this design. This study showed that implementing this sort of project can provide clean, economical, and continuous electricity production in countries with daily blackouts.