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Abstract
The development of renewable and / or conventional energy systems for power supply
of decentralized areas faces many technical, institutional, socio-cultural and financial barriers.
The solution recommended in this thesis is to look for approaches to design sustainable and
profitable systems for the development of rural electrification by the private sector. An
analysis of various economic criteria allows first to define several types of equivalence among
them: equivalence for investment decision, equivalence for the optimal sizing and equivalence
for ranking technical solutions. This first study shows that the three economic criteria usually
used (levelized cost of energy, internal rate of return and discounted payback period) lead to
different optimal technical solutions. A techno-economic model is then developed for off-grid
batteryless PV / Diesel hybrid systems. An application to 2iE-K1 campus (Ouagadougou) has
been done to validate the compliance of models compared to HOMER software. It shows that
the maximum internal rate of return criteria or minimum discounted payback period criteria
limits the initial investment and the amount of the maximum debt. Several optimal solutions
are then obtained, depending on economic criteria that were considered, for a real case study:
rural electrification for the locality of Bilgo. Therefore, the work carried out is ranked in the
branch of optimal design tools and techno-economic evaluation of energy production systems.