Developing a Web-based Application for Energy Supply Systems

Abstract

An energy supply system consists of a system of power plants and transmission and
distribution systems that supply electrical energy. The present project is limited to the modelling
of the generation system. Its objective is the design and implementation of a web-based
application for simulating energy supply systems using the Laravel framework. The project
focuses on six modules representing geothermal energy, solar energy, biopower, hydropower,
storage, and fossil-based energy that are allocated to satisfy a given power demand. It is
executed as a time series modelling for an exemplary year with hourly resolution. The
development of the software is divided into four steps, which are the definition of the user
requirements, the system design (activity, use case, system architecture, and ERD), the software
development, and the software testing (unit testing, functionality testing, validity testing, and
user acceptance testing). The software is successfully implemented. All the features of the
software work as intended. Also, the software goes through validity testing using three different
input data, to make sure the software is accurate. The result of the testing is 100% accuracy with
respect to the underlying model that was implemented in an excel calculation.