6. Role of Hybrid Energy System in Reducing Effects of Climate Change

Climate change is a very rising topic nowadays since the climate of this world is changing rapidly day by day. In the technical field, it is seen that so many things or techniques used here, which have a very bad impact on our environment like use of non-renewable energy source, emission of greenhouse gases and so on. At present electric power generation is mainly dependent upon non-renewable sources. Due to rapid uses of non-renewable energy sources, its storage reserves are decreasing rapidly. So an alternate source is required and that is the renewable energy source, nowadays renewable sources are utilized but in small amount. Renewable sources are environmentally friendly, so using of renewable energy sources are more preferable than non-renewable sources for the betterment of our environment. Due to rising environmental concerns day by day, the utilization of renewable energy need to be increased as much as possible. There are so many remote or island places in this world where huge numbers of renewable sources are available which can be used for power generation. And the most important thing is that they have no effect (or very less effect) in this environment. So our goal is to model and simulate a grid connected solar-wind hybrid energy system which is used to solve the problems regarding the power generation. In this chapter a 24 h case study analysis is done by taking the real time data of solar radiation and wind speed of a selected location. The results of this analysis indicate that the hybrid system is profitable and environmentally friendly. This analysis simply gives an idea about to what extent there will be the generation of power and how much it will be helpful to this environment. In addition, it includes detailed discussion on climate change, harmful effects of non-renewable energy sources on the environment and the need of renewable energy based hybrid energy system to combat climate change. By this explanation we will get to know more about how renewable energy sources mitigate two problems – climate change & power demand.