Optimal sizing of a hybrid PV, wind and micro-hydro system for rural electrification using LPO

The goal of this paper is to optimize the cost of electricity (CE) and minimizing the output power variance in order to get more reliable system and increased system efficiency. In this paper, a mathematical model of solar, wind and micro-hydro power plant were proposed and connected together in order to build an economic system and sufficient to supply the load. The optimization problem was solved by using Linear Programming Optimization (LPO) technique within the system constraints with the help of special function linprog of Matlab2014a. The results show that the LPO is reliable, efficient, robust, fast and capable of solving optimization problems.