Author:
Desai Alpesh,Mukhopadhyay Indrajit,Ray Abhijit
Abstract
AbstractThis paper presents a techno-economic analysis of ‘Picogrid’ in hilly remote areas of North-East India, where availability of conventional grid power is either none or limited. A Picogrid is a small microgrid (typically a few tens of kW) containing renewable energy sources like solar, wind, small hydro etc. with battery based energy storage of limited capacity. A hybrid solar PV-Hydro based Picogrid of 7.2 kW capacity in a remote hilly area is analyzed, where the solar irradiance varies between 3.5 and 6.2 kWh/Day/m2, a water fall head lies between 1 and 30 m and water flow rate varies from 100 to 50,000 L/h. The study reveals that, the annual total energy generation varies between 1200 and 5000 kWh/kW/Year. Whereas the annual average daily yield and Capacity Utilization Factors for such system are 9 kWh/kWp/Day and 40%, respectively at highest possible water head and flow rate as mentioned above. The optimized Picogrid system is shown to have a levelised cost of electricity of 1.4 INR (0.017 USD) and 1.8 INR (0.022 USD) per kWh for 100% and 30% equity investment, respectively. The energy produced by these methods can be provided in rural areas thereby making electricity and revenue producing probabilities concurrently.
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Subject
Computer Networks and Communications,Energy Engineering and Power Technology,Information Systems
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