HOMER Energy News

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