An Assessment of Renewable Energy Options for Somalia Turkey Hospital

Somalia Mogadishu-Turkey Training and Research Hospital is only powered by diesel generator currently. In this paper, the energy demand of this hospital is supplied by determining the optimum hybrid power renewable generating system. Therefore, numerous hybrid renewable power generating systems including the components like diesel generator, wind turbine, photovoltaic (PV) and battery are considered in different configurations. Eventually, they are technically, environmentally and economically analyzed by using the well-known HOMER software. Furthermore, a sensitivity analysis is also performed considering variations in three important parameters, namely average wind speed, current diesel price and also solar radiation. According to the results, the optimal system is the standalone Wind/Diesel/Battery hybrid renewable energy system (HRES) with the configuration of 1,000 kW wind turbine, 350 kW diesel generator, 250 kW power converters and 750 batteries. Additionally, this system has the net present cost of $5,056,700 as well as the cost of energy as $0.191/kWh. Lastly, it is clearly occurred that the Wind/Diesel/Battery HRES is eco-friendlier than other HRESs.