Off-grid systems for rural electrification in develo** countries: Definitions, classification and a comprehensive literature review

S Mandelli, J Barbieri, R Mereu, E Colombo - Renewable and Sustainable …, 2016 - Elsevier
Access to electric power supply has always had a significant role in promoting
improvements in all the society sectors, nevertheless nowadays 1.3 billion of people still do …

Performance evaluation of stand alone, grid connected and hybrid renewable energy systems for rural application: A comparative review

S Goel, R Sharma - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2017 - Elsevier
The energy demand across the globe has increased in many folds due to technological
advancement, rapid growth in industries and increase in household energy demand. This …

Optimal sizing of PV/wind/diesel hybrid microgrid system using multi-objective self-adaptive differential evolution algorithm

MAM Ramli, H Bouchekara, AS Alghamdi - Renewable energy, 2018 - Elsevier
Microgrid systems, such as solar photovoltaic (PV) power and wind energy, integrated with
diesel generators are promising energy supplies and are economically feasible for current …

Optimization of micro-grid system using MOPSO

H Borhanazad, S Mekhilef, VG Ganapathy… - Renewable energy, 2014 - Elsevier
Access to a reliable source of electricity is a basic need for any community as it can improve
the living standards characterized via the improvement of healthcare, education, and the …

A support vector machine–firefly algorithm-based model for global solar radiation prediction

L Olatomiwa, S Mekhilef, S Shamshirband… - Solar Energy, 2015 - Elsevier
In this paper, the accuracy of a hybrid machine learning technique for solar radiation
prediction based on some meteorological data is examined. For this aim, a novel method …

Hybrid renewable energy supply for rural healthcare facilities: An approach to quality healthcare delivery

L Olatomiwa, R Blanchard, S Mekhilef… - … Energy Technologies and …, 2018 - Elsevier
The lack of modern electricity supply has been a major impediment to proper functioning of
the healthcare centers in the rural areas, contributing to high maternal and child mortality …

A combined multi-objective intelligent optimization approach considering techno-economic and reliability factors for hybrid-renewable microgrid systems

A Heydari, MM Nezhad, F Keynia, A Fekih… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper proposes a novel optimization strategy for hybrid-renewable energy systems in
microgrids. The multi-objective optimization approach is formulated for a PV-wind-diesel …

Multiobjective optimization of a hybrid PV/Wind/Battery/Diesel generator system integrated in microgrid: A case study in Djelfa, Algeria

Z Belboul, B Toual, A Kouzou, L Mokrani, A Bensalem… - Energies, 2022 - mdpi.com
Hybrid Renewable Energy Sources (HRES) integrated into a microgrid (MG) are a cost-
effective and convenient solution to supply energy to off-grid and rural areas in develo** …

Multi objective particle swarm optimization of hybrid micro-grid system: A case study in Sweden

M Azaza, F Wallin - Energy, 2017 - Elsevier
Distributed energy resources DERs are small scale energy system which could provide local
supply when placed at customers' premises. They aggregate multiple local and diffuse …