RECENT TRENDS IN ENVIRONMENT AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT Economic and environmental impact analyses of hybrid generation system in respect to Rajasthan Amit Shrivastava 1 & Devendra Kumar Doda 1 & Mahesh Bundele 2 Received: 29 February 2020 /Accepted: 6 July 2020 # Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2020 Abstract This paper intends to show the aspects of an environment-friendly hybrid energy system (HES) for reducing the electrical power problems in remote areas and providing pollution-free energy. It draws attention towards renewable HES to attain a consistent and independent system. Optimization of the apparatus extent, step-up asset price, and effects on environment is also taken care of. The HES is capable of supply green electricity to population living in remote areas, where supply from grid is a major hurdle. In the proposed HES, the main proportion of power has been generated from the solar panels and wind turbines, while the batteries act as backup power source. The optimization of designed system has been done using the HOMER software. The design and application of the proposed method is a novel solution for the selected location. The results obtained from simulation justify that the proposed HES acts as viable solution for electrification of remote areas which are not connected from the grid. Keywords Remote areas . Solar energy . Wind energy . Hybrid energy . Financial appraisal Introduction The ecological struggles like global warming and air pollution resulting from burning of fossil fuels and monetary exertion like involvement of high cost have forced energy consumers to utilize wind and solar energies as sparkling sources of en- ergy. Wind and solar energies have gained prime attention from most of the energy consumers in the last decade (Nassar et al. 2019). This is because of advantages associated with renewable energy, such as reducing green house gas emissions and clean energy source, and improves the environ- ment, reduces fossil fuel consumption, and gives low operat- ing costs (He et al. 2019; Nassar et al. 2019; Zhang et al. 2020). Switching to renewable energy sources like solar and wind energies is a necessity in present scenario due to scarcity of fossil fuels wealth and unfavorable environment conditions. Solar energy and wind energy are usual assets since they are everlasting and are trendier. Also, the popularity of solar and wind power for generation of electric energy can be linked to availability and easiness associated with these sources (Vasant and Pawar 2017a, b). When solar and wind energy resources are used indepen- dently, then in that condition, high generation level is to be maintained which results in increased size of the battery used for energy storage (Ntomaris and Bakirtzis 2015). Also, the fluctuation of power is a source of unsteadiness in supply. So, it is recommended to hybridize the individual photovoltaic (PV) and wind energy systems in a new system, called hybrid PV/wind system (Zaki Diab et al. 2019). The renewable power generation is fundamentally intended to accomplish the requirement of electrical power of the areas where the supply of electrical energy from grid is a big chal- lenge (Diab et al. 2019; Koc et al. 2019; Solangi et al. 2019). In a developing country like India, many tribes are residing in deep forest and supply of electricity in these locations from grid is a great challenge, due to geological and constitutional reasons. Renewable energy–based off-grid distributed gener- ation system may be an effective great solution to electrify these areas (Bielecki et al. 2020; Hui et al. 2017; Ren et al. 2020; Nassar et al. 2019). The motto of increasing the use of renewable energy sources, specifically wind power (WP) and PV, is to display Responsible editor: Eyup Dogan * Amit Shrivastava apasjpr@gmail.com 1 Department of Electrical Engineering, Poornima University, Sitapura, Jaipur, Rajasthan 302022, India 2 Department of Computer Engineering, Poornima College of Engineering, Sitapura, Jaipur, Rajasthan 302022, India Environmental Science and Pollution Research https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-020-10041-6