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A significant number of Nigerian citizens lives in remote and rural settlements often without access to the utility grid. Even those areas connected to the grid still do experience frequent and prolonged power outages (as much as 18 hours on some days). Therefore, they have to rely on portable generators to power their electrical equipment during load shed, using firewood for cooking and burning of kerosene lamps for lighting up their homes which is not environmentally friendly. Proper sizing of multiple power sources complemented with or without a storage system has been shown to be the best long-term solution for the power challenge of Nigeria. In this paper, the technical and economic feasibility of the different combinations of energy sources (grid, wind turbine, solar photovoltaic (PV), diesel generator (DG) and battery) are carried out to meet the energy requirement of a remote village in Nigeria using HOMER …