Assess students' ability to create a complete design for a sustainable hybrid solar–microhydro microgrid for a remote village: produce clear system schematics; perform load profiling and energy balance; size PV arrays, microhydro turbine, inverters, and storage; calculate capital and operating costs and levelized cost of energy; define storage and control strategies (battery management, reservoir operation, control logic, protection); and produce a community implementation, financing, and maintenance plan with stated assumptions and trade‑off justification.