2015 International Conference on Circuit, Power and Computing Technologies [ICCPCT]
978-1-4799-7075-9/15/$31.00 ©2015 IEEE
A Case study for Solarification project of
Different places in India
Ravi Kumar
Dept of Electrical Engineering
Indian School of Mines
Dhanbad, India
Dr. Nitai Pal
Dept of Electrical Engineering
Indian School of Mines
Dhanbad, India
AbishekNaithani
Dept of Electrical Engineering
Indian School of Mines
Dhanbad, India
Abstract—As the population is increasing day by day, so
the energy demands are bound to increase. In recent years
India has seen several blackouts. To meet the future
demand of power we should start investing in renewable
energy. India has great potential for solar energy which is
still untapped. Solar energy is residential friendly and can
be installed easily in residential areas. This paper presents
the Modeling and Cost analysis of solar photovoltaic (PV)
systems and the energy saved in a domestic household
from its use. The study is conducted in five different places
of INDIA using RETSCREEN software. The role of solar
radiation on size of PV system and their economic
influence of different location is analyzed for equal load
demand. The parameters used for economic analysis of
modeling work are Net Present value (NPV), payback
period, Internal Rate of Return (IRR) etc. Different
parameters were compared for different selected locations.
Finally, it is found in the analysis that solar irradiation
level has great influence on the PV array size, its efficiency,
capital cost, IRR, payback period and levelised cost of
energy, etc. Also electricity generated by the solar PV
system reduces greenhouse gas (GHG) emission and makes
the environment more eco friendly. The weather
information was taken from the NASA website.
Keywords—economic analysis; stand-alone PV system;
solar radiation level effect; RET screen; Solarification
I. INTRODUCTION
Today, many countries in the world are facing
shortage of electricity including India. About 600
million household in India don’t have electricity
available to their home. For ensuring supply of
electricity to all, it is necessary to look beyond the
conventional sources of energy like wind, solar, tidal
etc. India has good solar irradiation as it lies between the
Equator and Tropic of Cancer. Annually the average
temperature of India ranges between 25°C to 28°C
which is best condition for using the solar PV cell to
generate electric energy. The importance of energy in
development of country is considered as key factor.
Recent studies shows that availability of energy is in
direct proportion to the economic growth of the country
[1]. According to IEA report, there is 53% increase in
consumption of primary energy worldwide up to 2030
and 70% of above figure come from developing nation.
Presently the fossil fuel provide 85-90% primary energy
supply to world. The greenhouse gases emission due to
incomplete combustion of fossil fuel are main cause
behind climate change. According to WHO report 1.6
million people die due to climate change every year and
this figure will be doubled by 2020 [2] .Although
Renewable can’t replace fossil fuel completely but they
can help to overcome the need of energy in the country.
PV technology can be used in those places where there
is no provision of grid electricity, and electricity
required for water pump used by farmers, in
telecommunication Industries (towers), highway
telephone network, as a street lighting system, home
lighting and many others. The performance and life
cycle of PV system (panels) is mostly affected by values
of solar irradiation falling on aperture area, azimuth
angle and temperature. [3, 4].
In this paper PV system is analyzed at different
climate condition of India to fulfil the domestic needs
of energy.
Fig.1 Global Horizontal Irradiance at various parts of India