COST OPTIMIZATION OF A SOLAR PV SYSTEM FOR A REMOTE VILLAGE IN INDIA

Abstract

Solar energy is the most significant resources of
renewable energy to generate green energy, which can
play important role in the replacement of fossil resources.
The developments of new technologies and materials
used in solar photovoltaic system used in solar power
technology reduces the cost of solar PV module and
increases the uses of solar energy as cooling, heating, and
daily electricity demand of the world and emerged as
viable alternative to produce clean energy in future. The
paper describes the technological development of PV
model, its present status and future opportunities in the
context of Bihar, India. The objective of this study is to
calculate the cost of a proposed PV system to provide
adequate power backup used in remotely placed village
in India. A case study has been done for the analysis of
power requirement of a house in a day to compute the
cost of a suitable PV system for a house based on the
global solar radiation data available in Bihar. The total
power requirement for a house has been calculated as
24.25 kWh/day by multiplying total requirement with 1.2
as fudge factor. The available average solar insolation
data is 4.96 kWh/m2/day, so a solar PV system of
capacity 4.89 kW is necessary to fulfil a house
requirement.