Optimizing the Benefits of Solar PV-Integrated Infrastructure in Educational Institutes and Organizational Setups in North Eastern India

Abstract

In typical Indian organisational settings, users usually rely on the traditional electrical grid and costly, environmentally harmful diesel generators to supply electricity for regular, emergency backup, and transient services. In addition to offering a chance to supply electricity to relocated people, integrating solar capacity into the current grid can result in considerable cost and carbon reductions. Utilising computational energy system modelling and the analysis of monitored demand data, we assess the savings made possible by the integration of solar (160 kW) capacity into the current supply grid of Assam Power Distribution Co. Ltd. (APDCL, India) at the Azara campus of Assam Don Bosco University, India. The authors discover that, over a five-year period, the renewable infrastructure significantly lowers costs and CO2 emissions. In order to cut costs and emissions and pave the way for sustainable energy practices, organisations should look into ways to integrate renewable energy sources into their current electrical infrastructure and maximise their performance once installed.