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A Detailed Review on Wind and Solar Hybrid Green Energy Technologies for Sustainable Smart Cities

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Smart City development is a program for urban redevelopment and refurbishment. The main goal of a smart city is to stimulate economic growth and improve the quality of life of people by facilitating local area development and utilizing technology, particularly technology that leads to Smart results. Power generation is also a very crucial factor in the power management of smart cities. Most developing countries still use non-renewable energy sources as their conventional ones for power generation. The important problems arising from Non-Renewable energy sources are the depletion of natural resources, incremental greenhouse gases, pollution of the environment, and the rising cost of power consumption. Nowadays, the people and government are becoming more conscious of the significance of switching from conventional energy sources to renewable energy sources as we become more mindful of our impact on the environment. Green Energy or Renewable Energy is a way to make our Smart cities and Power Grid more sustainable. Hydroelectric, Solar, Tidal, Wind, and Bio-gas are a few of the important green energy sources used for power generation. Solar and wind power harvesting can be adopted and more suited for the Smart city-like urban environment. Since solar radiation and wind speed change throughout the year, neither a solar nor a wind-powered system can offer consistent electricity individually. By considering this condition, hybrid solar and wind power harvesting is suggested for sustainable Smart future cities. The present work explains solar power, wind power, and hybrid solar-wind power harvesting in detail with a Smart City power generation perspective.

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Raj, E.F.I. A Detailed Review on Wind and Solar Hybrid Green Energy Technologies for Sustainable Smart Cities. Polytechnica 6, 1 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41050-023-00040-0

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