Design & Analysis of a PV-Piezoelectric based Off-grid Energy Harvester in Tripura

In recent years the realization and growing awareness of energy consumers regarding the environmental issues, economic and climatic challenges have accelerated a strong sustain impact in developing power technologies. To mitigate the detrimental impacts of the conventional energy resources, this paper provides an idea about an off-grid, distributed solar-piezo power generating technique usable for residential & isolated area applications. The primary power is supplied by the solar panel, and the subordinate power can be added by the produced energy from the piezoelectric modules, and the battery model is employed for continuous power supply in the suggested hybrid renewable power system.Furthermore, the dc-dc boost converter for PV and piezoelectric modules is designed to connect two power inputs in parallel. The present study focuses upon the design of the proposed system & scopes of the proposed system in Tripura, a hilly state in the North-Eastern Province of India.Tripura has ranked 56th amongst 100 smart cities in the countryaccording to Smart City rankings released in July 2020 & also 1st among all the North-Eastern states. Thus, the motto of the paper is to draw attention towards implementation of green energy harvesting techniques in Tripura which will certainly help to mitigate the techno-economic barriers in the region &successfully mitigating the energy requirements. The modelling and simulation of the proposed hybrid arrangement has been carried out in MATLAB/SIMULINK. The analysis of the proposed system portrays the effectiveness of the proposed system.

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