Design and fabrication of hybrid solar silicon PV system

Abstract Presently, in a city land cost for a solar plant to be Setup is very high. An innovative idea of hybrid solar Si (silicon) PV system that contains a Silicon PV (PV = photovoltaic) tree embedded with vertical axis wind turbine (VAWT) is proposed in this paper. PV tree which acts as a vertical support, and solar panels are placed in such a manner they appear as leaves of a tree. They are oriented towards south east, south and south west directions this makes the solar panel to be oriented towards the sun to capture maximum sun light. Secondly, a vertical axis wind turbine has been embedded on the top of PV tree to capture the energy from the flowing wind. The hybrid solar Si PV system is generally less noisy and takes full advantage of the wind spiraling effect upon hitting an object in its path. The two sources for generating electricity are contained in the same structure, and operate simultaneously yet independently of one another from renewable energy sources such as the wind and the sun energy. Thus, fusion of smartly designed hybrid solar Si PV system helps us to meet the growing power demand of our growing cites and also can increase power production of the renewable system by 50.8% compared to flat PV system.