Development of renewable energy-based power system for the irrigation support: case studies

Abstract The development of renewable energy-based applications is nowadays a forced demand of society, for chasing the target set by the governments and the concerned organizations, to reduce or limit the carbon penetration in the environment. Sincere efforts are being made by academics and researchers to create applications based on renewable energy that are reliable and efficient. Green revolutions increase agricultural fields and alter grain production rates, but they also increase energy consumption since agricultural machinery is used more efficiently, mostly for irrigation needs. The purpose of this work is to introduce a hybrid renewable energy system (HRES) that can take the place of the diesel pump often used for time-bound crop irrigation. This HRES system consists of a photovoltaic generator as the main power source supported by a battery energy storage system. For this hybrid system, the development of a Proportional & Integral (PI)-based integrated hybrid controller is proposed to regulate the charge/discharge cycle of the battery energy with maintaining the load demand simultaneously. Controlling of this hybrid system is carried out in the LabVIEW environment.