A techno-economic analysis of the roof top off-grid solar PV system for Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, India
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Mantosh Kumar
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Kumari Namrata
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Akshit Samadhiya
Abstract
As the exhaust rate of the conventional sources has geared up already, this is compelling the power industries to install the power plants based on the non-conventional sources so that future demand of the energy supply can be fulfilled. Among the various sources of renewable energy like wind, hydro, tidal etc., solar energy is the most easily accessible and available renewable energy source. Ensuring the feasibility of any energy source not only technical but also the economical perspective is the most important criteria. This paper has incorporated both the perspective and has done the techno-economic analysis to determine the optimum combination of the PV array size and battery size to minimize the overall electricity generation per unit. In this paper, a standalone solar PV system has been analyzed for the location of Jamshedpur, where an effort has been done to choose the optimum combination of the solar array and battery size within the desired range of LLP so that the electricity generation cost per unit can be minimized. The overall duration of the analysis has been done for a year and the outcome of the research has been verified with the help of MATLAB software.
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Author contributions: All the authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this submitted manuscript and approved submission.
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Research funding: None declared.
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Conflict of interest statement: The authors declare no conflicts of interest regarding this article.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Research Articles
- Differential positive sequence power angle-based microgrid feeder protection
- Real-time hardware emulation of wind turbine model with asynchronous generator under hardware-in-the-loop platform
- Frequency stability analysis with fuzzy adaptive selfish herd optimization based optimal sliding mode controller for microgrids
- Seamless control of grid-tied PV-Hybrid Energy Storage System
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