Optimal Designing and Synthesis of a Hybrid PV/Fuel cell/Wind System using Meta-heuristics

In this paper, a multi-objective optimization method has been established on a hybrid PV, wind, fuel cell, and battery system. The optimization is based on three models including energy supply reliability, electricity efficiency, and capital cost of the hybrid system. A new model of the Elephant Herding Optimization (BEHO) Algorithm is utilized to solve the multi-objective optimization problem and is validated based on different algorithms and benchmark functions. The main purpose is to determine the Pareto surface including a set of possible design solutions to help the decision-makers obtaining the global optimum solution. The final results indicated that the proposed method is an applicable approach for designing of the proposed hybrid system.