Computational Tools used in Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems Optimization-An overview

In nowadays, renewable energy has become a key area of interest for solving many problems such as climate changes, security of energy supply, and poverty reduction. To face these challenges and issues, the penetration and the implementation of renewable energy technologies have been done through Hybrid energy systems (HES). The aim of this work is to highlight an overview of software tools used in HES to get an optimum design of HES to get a better reliability and efficiency of electricity generated and to save the cost of installation. Within this context, the most software tools used widely in terms of techno-economic design of HES are so far HOMER, iHOGA, and RETScreen. This paper will help policy makers, academic researchers and energy planners to take a better decision for the paradigm shift of renewable energy.