Developing a Web-based Application for Energy Supply Systems

An energy supply system consists of a system of power plants and transmission and distribution systems that supply electrical energy. The present project is limited to the modelling of the generation system. Its objective is the design and implementation of a web-based application for simulating energy supply systems using the Laravel framework. The project focuses on six modules representing geothermal energy, solar energy, biopower, hydropower, storage, and fossil-based energy that are allocated to satisfy a given power demand. It is executed as a time series modelling for an exemplary year with hourly resolution. The development of the software is divided into four steps, which are the definition of the user requirements, the system design (activity, use case, system architecture, and ERD), the software development, and the software testing (unit testing, functionality testing, validity testing, and user acceptance testing). The software is successfully implemented. All the features of the software work as intended. Also, the software goes through validity testing using three different input data, to make sure the software is accurate. The result of the testing is 100% accuracy with respect to the underlying model that was implemented in an excel calculation.