Wind Power System for Large-Scale Energy and Hydrogen Production in Hassi R’mel

Wind energy is one of the most competitive renewable energy sources for providing energy to isolated area where the extension of the national grid is prohibitively expensive, or fossil fuel supply is difficult. The present work aims to evaluate the amount of energy and hydrogen produced from wind energy source over the site of Hassi R’mel, using hourly wind data (speed and direction) stretching from 2003 to 2017. As well as, estimating the cost of energy and hydrogen for large wind turbines. To this end, a model of wind-hydrogen system has been developed under Simulink environment, the main components are, a wind turbine to produce electricity from wind energy, an electrolyzer unit to produce hydrogen from the produced electricity by electrolysis technique, and a tank for hydrogen storage. The study pointed out, that the site of Hassi R’mel has an important wind potential with mean speed exceeding 6 m/s, and more profitable and adapted for wind energy conversion systems installation. The low cost of energy and hydrogen of 0.053 $/kWh, and 25.27 $/kg H2 respectively, is obtained by the Nordex N100 wind turbine at 100 m.