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Best hourly assessment tool for hybrid renewable electric generation systems in the world - bar none.
Dr. Jan F. Kreider
Building Systems Program, University of Colorado, USA
(January 15, 2008)
It's a unique tool that provides a depth of analysis simply impossible by any other means at my disposal.
Chris Greacen
Palang Thai, Thailand
(January 10, 2008)
HOMER is powerful and easy to use. I used it in conjunction with ViPOR for simulation of
rural electrification systems using hybrid wind-solar in two villages in the state of Bahia in Brazil.
This study found such systems to be more profitable than individual photovoltaic systems currently
used by local concessionaire. Congratulations to the creators of HOMER!
Pedro Nery Leoni
Companhia de Eletricidade do Estado da Bahia, Brazil
(November 23, 2007)
It allows simple apples to apples comparisons of drastically different system designs.
It convinced me of the utility of wind power in my situation. It taught me the importance
of a properly sized battery bank. It has provided me with the data to convince most
of the stakeholders of the importance of switching from a gasoline generator to a
generator/battery/renewable system.
Erik Schoenfeld
Massachusetts, USA
(January 8, 2007)
Interface is great. Saves countless time trying to accomplish the same thing in Excel.
Jeff LeBrun
University of Michigan, USA
(October 25, 2007)
We have been using HOMER to assess the integration of renewable energy into remote power systems in aboriginal
communities in Western Australia. We have found it to be a most excellent tool, and are constantly surprised at
the quality of the analysis and reporting outputs.
David Edwards
Horizon Power, Australia
(July 16, 2007)
An excellent tool for financial and system modelling that combined with other software we use provides good comparisons.
Bruce Clay
Clay Engineering Ltd, Fiji
(June 26, 2007)
I always find the technical support for HOMER to be speedy and helpful. It's one of the aspects of this tool that I find invaluable...
Cheryl Loone
Powercorp, Australia
(June 12, 2007)
[HOMER is] very flexible. I like specifying a range of components and letting HOMER do the work of finding optimal solutions.
Bradley Oxford
Appalachian State University, USA
(April 28, 2007)
HOMER is a beautiful thing... it doesn't crash, it does most everything you could want it to, and it actually presents results in an intuitive/understandable manner.
Jonathan Murphy
Aerospace Systems Design Laboratory, Georgia Tech, USA
(April 17, 2007)
Congratulation for your HOMER program, it is really a very good tool to disseminate renewable energies.
Corinne Dubois
equitao, France
(March 23, 2007)
Your programme HOMER is very helpful to make economical calculations.
We are very impressed, program is very small but powerful and usage is very simple.
Andrius Belanoska
Kaunas University for Technology, Lithuania
(March 21, 2007)
Congratulations for HOMER. Very useful and
simple to use in the context of Rural Africa.
Smail Khennas
PREDAS-CILSS, Burkina Faso
(March 1, 2007)
Very easy to use but analytically powerful.
I was able to get a simple system up and
running quickly so that I could learn by doing.
Shaun Cornelius
Meridian Energy Limited, New Zealand
(February 28, 2007)
It is fast, easy to use, provides valuable analysis data
for my clients to make informed decisions with regard
to fuel use, renewable energy options and cost/benefit.
David Feider
PEER Group, LLC, USA
(February 28, 2007)
I continue being awed by HOMER. I find it to be a unique and extremely useful resource,
often giving insight that had not existed previously. In particular, the inclusion of
statistical fluctuations in the simulations and the automatic optimization have saved
us enormous amounts of time -- if we had actually had the resources to do them by other means.
Jim Easton PE
Alternative Energy Technologies, USA
(December 22, 2006)
It is a very easy and powerful software for the designing of the micropower systems.
Francisco Santamaria
Cor Solar, Spain
(November 2, 2006)
It is a very quick and easy to learn program and a very powerful one when used correctly.
Luis Sanchez
Florida State University
(October 31, 2006)
I wanted to thank you for the years of effort that you've spent on building and perfecting HOMER. It has played
a major part in my career from which I've gained some credibility. And I'm a firm believer of sharing from success
stories so that future achievements can be shared by all... Thanks again for a job well done.
Hugh Jones
Power and Energy Consultant, USA
(September 14, 2006)
This is really an amazing tool!
Karim Moutawakkil
Conergy, Germany
(August 4, 2006)
I would like to congratulate NREL on the wonderful work done by offering HOMER to the international research and teaching community. The program makes easy the task of teaching and research on renewable energy subjects.
Dr. Jose R. Camacho, PhD
Professor at Universidade Federal de Uberlandia, Brazil
(May 17, 2006)
I found your HOMER amazing. Congratulations.
Esad Smajlovic
Bosnia and Herzegovina
(May 12, 2006)
The support staff is wonderful. The program is outstanding.
Christopher Simon, Ph.D.
Associate Professor at University of Nevada, Reno
USA
(May 03, 2006)
HOMER is an excellent tool not only for educational purposes but for developing renewable programs as well.
Sergio Capareda, Ph.D.
Associate Professor at Texas A&M University
USA
(May 02, 2006)
Your program rocks! HOMER has replaced about a dozen spreadsheets and countless tables. Thanks for the great program.
Josh Carrell
Dwellsol Design and Consulting
USA
(April 10, 2006)
I love your software. It has really enhanced the way I approach design.
Manuel Cilia
Cilectric Pty Ltd
Australia
(April 8, 2006)
HOMER is superb.
Javier Sanz Rodriguez
CENER
Spain
(April 4, 2006)
Everbody I know who is working with HOMER is amazed.
Michael Tittmann
Tittmann Solar GmbH
Germany
(January 23, 2006)
I have used HOMER for a while now and I am very happy with it. Thanks a lot for a great product!
Torsten Bröer
University of Oldenburg
Germany
(January 4, 2006)
I like this program so much. It is very complete, useful and friendly.
Sergio Murillo
Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad
Costa Rica
(September 20, 2005)
Your program is amazing and I love it.
Michael Elliott
Southwest Windpower
USA
(September 16, 2005)
From our first look at the HOMER software it looks superb, as if written for
exactly what we are doing (design, supply and installation of small scale wind
power systems for remote and rural applications such as telecoms, cell towers,
irrigation water pumping and isolated communities' electrical supply).
We thank you for creating this package.
Peter Heilveil
Infratex Philippines Inc.
Philippines
(July 14, 2005)
We have been making great use of the HOMER tool. We have been designing
solar only [telecom] sites for many years and recently started adding wind
to help during winter storms. We didn't have a predictable way to evaluate
the contribution from the wind turbine until we started using HOMER last year.
Edward Johnson
BanDao Associates, LLC
USA
(May 9, 2005)
We downloaded HOMER 6 days ago, mainly for optimizing systems in a rural
electrification project in Jordan. We find the program easy to use and
straightforward and it has been great help in sorting out myriad possibilities.
HOMER presents results in a clear and concise manner, making decisions easy.
Mehmet Hanagasioglu
Interwind AG
Switzerland
(December 1, 2004)
The capacity of your program is very impressive, and it looks like the program
will be able to do most of what I will be doing for my Masters.
Gordon Dalton
University of Queensland
Australia
(October 6, 2004)
I have just started to use HOMER for my final year dissertation project and
have found it fantastic. It is very easy to use, the getting started manual
is excellent and the range of different types of outputs makes demonstrating
the theoretical application of RE technology much easier.
Simon Renwick
Murdoch University
Australia
(August 30, 2004)
Thanks a lot for providing HOMER free of cost. It is really a very
useful tool for hybrid systems.
Himanshu Maheshwari
Lynntech, Inc.
USA
(August 10, 2004)
So far I am extremely impressed with the program and can certainly see its potential.
John Lepper, P.Eng
Neill & Gunter (Nova Scotia) Ltd.
Canada
(April 13, 2004)
I would like to commend you and your team for developing one of the most important tools
in furthering the viability of renewable energy technologies. I have found that
it is being accepted within certain circles of industry and could potentially become
a widely adopted industry standard for presenting economic and technology evaluations.
Brook Porter
Intelligent Energy, Ltd.
USA
(March 23, 2004)
I'm really happy with your software! I find it a very good tool for understanding hybrid
systems and their optimisation - very user-friendly interfaces. Way to go and keep up the good work.
Jan Cloin
South Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission (SOPAC)
Fiji / Netherlands
(January 27, 2004)
Congratulations for making such a user friendly software freely available.
Buerer Meinrad
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Switzerland
(August 13, 2003)
I am very impressed with the new look HOMER website. We're currently playing
with HOMER 2.0 on a small wind-hydrogen feasibility study. It looks
fantastic.
David Howey
Systems Engineer
Sustainability and Renewables Team
whitbybird Engineers
United Kingdom
(July 21, 2003)
I found the software easy to use and extremely useful;
great work!
Tony Hastings
Australia
(July 17, 2003)
I just downloaded and installed HOMER 2.0 and it appears to be working well.
If there is some problem I will let you know. Thanks for writing such an
excellent code for hybrid energy systems.
Tariq Iqbal
Faculty of Engineering
Memorial University of Newfoundland
Canada
www.engr.mun.ca/~tariq
(July 3, 2003)
Up and running (with version 2.0). At first glance, she`s a beauty!
Nice going. Easy to use, communicative, logical.
Nelson "Woody" Stevens
Wireless Energy
Chile
(May 7, 2003)
Actually I use HOMER a lot through Virtual PC. I love this program,
nice work.
Scott Baron
(a Macintosh User)
University of Michigan
USA
(Feb 10, 2003)
HOMER is an indispensable tool when we talk of electrification with
renewables.
Cecilio U. Sumaoy
Cagayan Electric Power & Light Co.
Philippines
(December 1, 2002)
I noticed that you have HOMER version 2.0 coming up, which has most
of the features that I have been longing for. I must say that, you
guys are really incredible. You have helped me solve and lighten my
workload problems in a faster and more efficient way. Additionally,
you have helped many RET enthusiasts, consultants and not the least,
the students. More power to you all!
Very sincerely and much appreciated,
Gina Saavedra Fenner
Renewable Energy Engineer
International Centre for Application of Solar Energy (CASE)
Perth, WA, Australia
(November 20, 2002)
I am really enjoying the new version, and it is a very welcome
contribution to my PhD thesis work and to the greater industry. You
folks are doing a good thing there.
Phil Murray
Centre for Energy Research
Massey University, New Zealand
(October 22, 2002)
Northern Power Systems has been using the results of NREL's optimization model, HOMER,
for several years now. It is a unique and valuable tool for our core business of
designing hybrid power systems for remote applications, such as telecomm, pipelines,
village power systems and eco-tourism. HOMER represents the state-of-the-art for
analysis of these applications.
Clint (Jito) Coleman
President, Northern Power Systems (www.northernpower.com)
I just wanted to express you my satisfaction (I should say my
complete satisfaction) with HOMER. I was using it for the last
year to simulate RET systems as part of a pre-feasibility
investigation regarding the use of renewables as an alternate
source of energy for off-grid electrification in Costa Rica.
Congratulations for such a useful tool.
Ricardo Jahns
Consultant, UNDP Energy and Climate Change Programme for Latin America and the Caribbean
I recently used HOMER to assess renewables and diesel solutions
for an island in Costa Rica, as my project of a renewables course.
I find it is very solid and transparent, once you get the hang of it.
Keep up the good work.
Jorge Mario Montero. PE, MS
Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad
I recently downloaded HOMER Pro version 1.56 for review purposes
and have found if to be an excellent program. Now I'm using it
for a real project, designing small energy systems for remote
homes in Sweden. I am very thankful to all of you who have
developed the program and made it available.
Sven Ruin
ÅF-Industriteknik AB
Sweden
Congratulations on HOMER and ViPOR. They are excellent products.
Ray Butler
Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation(SMEC)
Australia
I discovered HOMER on the net and I was very pleased to use
this software. The interface is really clear and it provides
many interesting results.
FranÁois Schaller
Swiss Federal Institute
Switzerland
Hello Tom,
Thank you very much, I could download HOMER now, it is a realy
good program, congratulations and thank you again.
Regards,
Silvia Manzanares Faúndez
(Spain)
I'm putting together a comparative database of PV design software
in cooperation with Sharp (Japan) Corporation's Ecological
Technology Development Center in Nara, Japan. I've found
HOMER to be incredibly robust and the best application
available for system comparison among the 15 or so programs covered.
Mick Grover
Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
Camas, WA
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What people are saying about HOMER:
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Best hourly assessment tool for hybrid renewable electric generation systems in the world – bar none.
Dr. Jan F. Kreider
Building Systems Program, University of Colorado, USA
We find the program easy to use and
straightforward and it has been great help in sorting out myriad possibilities.
HOMER presents results in a clear and concise manner, making decisions easy.
Mehmet Hanagasioglu
Interwind AG, Switzerland
It's a unique tool that provides a depth of analysis simply impossible by any other means at my disposal.
Chris Greacen
Palang Thai, Thailand
It allows simple apples to apples comparisons of drastically different system designs.
Erik Schoenfeld
Massachusetts, USA
Interface is great. Saves countless time trying to accomplish the same thing in Excel.
Jeff LeBrun
University of Michigan, USA
We have found it to be a most excellent tool, and are constantly surprised at
the quality of the analysis and reporting outputs.
David Edwards
Horizon Power, Australia
An excellent tool for financial and system modelling that combined with other software we use provides good comparisons.
Bruce Clay
Clay Engineering Ltd, Fiji
I always find the technical support for HOMER to be speedy and helpful. It's one of the aspects of this tool that I find invaluable...
Cheryl Loone
Powercorp, Australia
[HOMER is] very flexible. I like specifying a range of components and letting HOMER do the work of finding optimal solutions.
Bradley Oxford
Appalachian State University, USA
HOMER is a beautiful thing... it doesn't crash, it does most everything you could want it to, and it actually presents results in an intuitive/ understandable manner.
Jonathan Murphy
Aerospace Systems Design Laboratory, Georgia Tech, USA
Congratulation for your HOMER program, it is really a very good tool to disseminate renewable energies.
Corinne Dubois
Equitao, France
Your programme HOMER is very helpful to make economical calculations.
We are very impressed, program is very small but powerful and usage is very simple.
Andrius Belanoska
Kaunas University for Technology, Lithuania
Congratulations for HOMER. Very useful and
simple to use in the context of rural Africa.
Smail Khennas
PREDAS-CILSS, Burkina Faso
Very easy to use but analytically powerful.
I was able to get a simple system up and
running quickly so that I could learn by doing.
Shaun Cornelius
Meridian Energy Limited, New Zealand
It is fast, easy to use, provides valuable analysis data
for my clients to make informed decisions with regard
to fuel use, renewable energy options and cost/benefit.
David Feider
PEER Group, LLC, USA
I continue being awed by HOMER. I find it to be a unique and extremely useful resource,
often giving insight that had not existed previously.
Jim Easton PE
Alternative Energy Technologies, USA
It is a very easy and powerful software for the designing of the micropower systems.
Francisco Santamaria
Cor Solar, Spain
It is a very quick and easy to learn program and a very powerful one when used correctly.
Luis Sanchez
Florida State University
I wanted to thank you for the years of effort that you've spent on building and perfecting HOMER. Thanks again for a job well done.
Hugh Jones
Power and Energy Consultant, USA
This is really an amazing tool!
Karim Moutawakkil
Conergy, Germany
The program makes easy the task of teaching and research on renewable energy subjects.
Dr. Jose R. Camacho, PhD
Professor at Universidade Federal de Uberlandia, Brazil
I found your HOMER amazing. Congratulations.
Esad Smajlovic
Bosnia and Herzegovina
The support staff is wonderful. The program is outstanding.
Christopher Simon, Ph.D.
Associate Professor at University of Nevada, Reno, USA
HOMER is an excellent tool not only for educational purposes but for developing renewable programs as well.
Sergio Capareda, Ph.D.
Associate Professor at Texas A&M University, USA
I love your software. It has really enhanced the way I approach design.
Manuel Cilia
Cilectric Pty Ltd, Australia
HOMER is superb.
Javier Sanz Rodriguez
CENER, Spain
Everbody I know who is working with HOMER is amazed.
Michael Tittmann
Tittmann Solar GmbH, Germany
I have used HOMER for a while now and I am very happy with it. Thanks a lot for a great product!
Torsten Bröer
University of Oldenburg, Germany
I like this program so much. It is very complete, useful and friendly.
Sergio Murillo
Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad, Costa Rica
Your program is amazing and I love it.
Michael Elliott
Southwest Windpower, USA
From our first look at the HOMER software it looks superb, as if written for
exactly what we are doing.
We thank you for creating this package.
Peter Heilveil
Infratex Philippines Inc.
We didn't have a predictable way to evaluate
the contribution from the wind turbine until we started using HOMER last year.
Edward Johnson
BanDao Associates, LLC, USA
We find the program easy to use and
straightforward and it has been great help in sorting out myriad possibilities.
HOMER presents results in a clear and concise manner, making decisions easy.
Mehmet Hanagasioglu
Interwind AG, Switzerland
The capacity of your program is very impressive, and it looks like the program
will be able to do most of what I will be doing for my Masters.
Gordon Dalton
University of Queensland, Australia
I have just started to use HOMER for my final year dissertation project and
have found it fantastic.
Simon Renwick
Murdoch University, Australia
Thanks a lot for providing HOMER free of cost. It is really a very
useful tool for hybrid systems.
Himanshu Maheshwari
Lynntech, Inc.,
USA
So far I am extremely impressed with the program and can certainly see its potential.
John Lepper, P.Eng
Neill & Gunter (Nova Scotia) Ltd.,
Canada
I would like to commend you and your team for developing one of the most important tools
in furthering the viability of renewable energy technologies.
Brook Porter
Intelligent Energy, Ltd.,
USA
I'm really happy with your software! I find it a very good tool for understanding hybrid
systems and their optimisation – very user-friendly interfaces. Way to go and keep up the good work.
Jan Cloin
South Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission (SOPAC),
Fiji / Netherlands
Congratulations for making such a user friendly software freely available.
Buerer Meinrad
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology,
Switzerland
I am very impressed with the new look HOMER website. We're currently playing
with HOMER 2.0 on a small wind-hydrogen feasibility study. It looks
fantastic.
David Howey
Whitbybird Engineers,
United Kingdom
I found the software easy to use and extremely useful;
great work!
Tony Hastings
Australia
I just downloaded and installed HOMER 2.0 and it appears to be working well.
Thanks for writing such an
excellent code for hybrid energy systems.
Tariq Iqbal
Memorial University of Newfoundland,
Canada
Up and running (with version 2.0). At first glance, she`s a beauty!
Nice going. Easy to use, communicative, logical.
Nelson "Woody" Stevens
Wireless Energy,
Chile
Actually I use HOMER a lot through Virtual PC. I love this program,
nice work.
Scott Baron
(a Macintosh User)
University of Michigan,
USA
HOMER is an indispensable tool when we talk of electrification with
renewables.
Cecilio U. Sumaoy
Cagayan Electric Power & Light Co.,
Philippines
I must say that, you
guys are really incredible. You have helped me solve and lighten my
workload problems in a faster and more efficient way. More power to you all!
Gina Saavedra Fenner
International Centre for Application of Solar Energy (CASE),
Perth, WA, Australia
I am really enjoying the new version, and it is a very welcome
contribution to my PhD thesis work and to the greater industry. You
folks are doing a good thing there.
Phil Murray
Centre for Energy Research
Massey University, New Zealand
It is a unique and valuable tool for our core business of
designing hybrid power systems for remote applications, such as telecomm, pipelines,
village power systems and eco-tourism.
Clint (Jito) Coleman
President, Northern Power Systems
I just wanted to express you my satisfaction (I should say my
complete satisfaction) with HOMER.
Congratulations for such a useful tool.
Ricardo Jahns
Consultant, UNDP Energy and Climate Change Programme for Latin America and the Caribbean
I recently used HOMER to assess renewables and diesel solutions
for an island in Costa Rica, as my project of a renewables course.
I find it is very solid and transparent, once you get the hang of it.
Keep up the good work.
Jorge Mario Montero, PE, MS
Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad
I recently downloaded HOMER and have found if to be an excellent program. Now I'm using it
for a real project, designing small energy systems for remote
homes in Sweden. I am very thankful to all of you who have
developed the program and made it available.
Sven Ruin
ÅF-Industriteknik AB
Sweden
I discovered HOMER on the net and I was very pleased to use
this software. The interface is really clear and it provides
many interesting results.
François Schaller
Swiss Federal Institute,
Switzerland
Thank you very much, I could download HOMER now, it is a really
good program, congratulations and thank you again.
Regards,
Silvia Manzanares Faúndez,
Spain
I've found
HOMER to be incredibly robust and the best application
available for system comparison among the 15 or so programs covered.
Mick Grover
Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
Camas, WA
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