{"title":"Estimation of hybrid energy generation of solar-wind tower for electric vehicle charging: A case study of Indian highway","authors":"Samarendra Pratap Singh, Prabhakar Tiwari, S.N. Singh, Praveen Prakash Singh","doi":"10.1002/est2.70004","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p>Advances in non-conventional energy technologies and increasing fossil fuel prices along with environmental concerns have made hybrid renewable energy systems important. In view of this scenario, solar panel mounted on a vertical axis wind turbine (called as solar-wind tower) can be utilized to produce more electric energy than individual one. This solar-wind tower will be located in the space available between two opposite roads of expressways/highways. Solar-wind tower located in such a manner that the air velocity produced from driving vehicles on both sides of the road is adequate to cut the turbine blades which will produce unidirectional torque. A battery energy storage system (BESS) stores the power produced by the solar-wind tower so that it can subsequently be used for local loads and electric vehicle charging stations (EVCS) and remaining energy can be supplied to the grid. In this work, a hybrid system composed of wind and solar is designed and modelled in Simulink (MATLAB) and tested on real data of wind speed and validated by Opal-RT simulator. From the simulation result, it is estimated that total electrical power output of a single solar-wind tower is around 15 to 20 kWh in a day under the assumed conditions.</p>","PeriodicalId":11765,"journal":{"name":"Energy Storage","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Energy Storage","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/est2.70004","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Advances in non-conventional energy technologies and increasing fossil fuel prices along with environmental concerns have made hybrid renewable energy systems important. In view of this scenario, solar panel mounted on a vertical axis wind turbine (called as solar-wind tower) can be utilized to produce more electric energy than individual one. This solar-wind tower will be located in the space available between two opposite roads of expressways/highways. Solar-wind tower located in such a manner that the air velocity produced from driving vehicles on both sides of the road is adequate to cut the turbine blades which will produce unidirectional torque. A battery energy storage system (BESS) stores the power produced by the solar-wind tower so that it can subsequently be used for local loads and electric vehicle charging stations (EVCS) and remaining energy can be supplied to the grid. In this work, a hybrid system composed of wind and solar is designed and modelled in Simulink (MATLAB) and tested on real data of wind speed and validated by Opal-RT simulator. From the simulation result, it is estimated that total electrical power output of a single solar-wind tower is around 15 to 20 kWh in a day under the assumed conditions.