TY - JOUR AU - AB - TYPE Original Research PUBLISHED 12 September 2022 DOI 10.3389/fenrg.2022.960045 A feasibility study on Balarbhita for advancing rural electrification OPEN ACCESS EDITED BY Yashwant Sawle, with a solar—Micro-hydro hybrid Madhav Institute of Technology and Science Gwalior, India system REVIEWED BY Olatunde Dahunsi, Bowen University, Nigeria 1 2 R. Rajesh Kanna and R. Raja Singh * Aashish Kumar Bohre, National Institute of Technology, 1 2 School of Electrical Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, India, Dept of Energy and Durgapur, India Power Electronics, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, India *CORRESPONDENCE R. Raja Singh, rrajasingh@gmail.com SPECIALTY SECTION The study analyzed the techno-economic feasibility of a village in the Indian This article was submitted to Solar state of Assam and designs a framework for a rural hybrid energy system. Energy, a section of the journal Through an extensive resource evaluation, techno-economic feasibility analysis Frontiers in Energy Research and system size optimization are carried out using HOMER Pro software. RECEIVED 02 June 2022 Batteries are being used as a form of energy storage in the community ACCEPTED 29 July 2022 power system, which is based on solar PV and micro-hydro as its principal PUBLISHED 12 September 2022 energy sources. Macro-economic variables and resource variations TI - A feasibility study on Balarbhita for advancing rural electrification with a solar—Micro-hydro hybrid system JF - Frontiers in Energy Research DO - 10.3389/fenrg.2022.960045 DA - 2022-09-12 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/unpaywall/a-feasibility-study-on-balarbhita-for-advancing-rural-electrification-PW1d759BpF DP - DeepDyve ER -