Evaluating the impact of industrial loads on the performance of solar PV/diesel hybrid renewable energy systems for rural electrification in Ghana
Summary. Adding agro-processing productive loads to off-grid solar PV/diesel hybrid systems improves their performance for rural electrification in Ghana. The study used HOMER software to analyze a hybrid system and found that productive loads increase the load factor and solar correlation, reducing the cost of electricity generation. However, even with improvements, the cost remains higher than Ghana's national grid tariffs for residential consumers.
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Afonaa-Mensah, S., Odoi-Yorke, F., & Majeed, I. B.. (2024). Evaluating the impact of industrial loads on the performance of solar PV/diesel hybrid renewable energy systems for rural electrification in Ghana. Energy Conversion and Management X. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecmx.2024.100525
Afonaa-Mensah, Stephen, et al. “Evaluating the impact of industrial loads on the performance of solar PV/diesel hybrid renewable energy systems for rural electrification in Ghana.” Energy Conversion and Management X, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecmx.2024.100525.
Afonaa-Mensah, Stephen, Flavio Odoi-Yorke, and Issah Babatunde Majeed. 2024. “Evaluating the impact of industrial loads on the performance of solar PV/diesel hybrid renewable energy systems for rural electrification in Ghana.” Energy Conversion and Management X. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecmx.2024.100525.
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- 10.1016/j.ecmx.2024.100525
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- Africa
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- energy, agtech, rural-data-and-definitions
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- 2026-04-28