Development of design principles of microgrid on the basis of renewable energy sources for rural settlements in Central European part of Russia

The paper presents an approach to the development of microgrid on the basis of renewable energy sources for settlements in the Central European part of Russia not connected to centralized electrical network providing comfortable level of the population living. The paper determines the annual power consumption and energy as well as firm capacity which are to be provided by microgrid. The optimum relationship of PV and wind power stations is determined; the structure of microgrid providing continuous power supply of a customer is determined.