Design and Optimization of Standalone Photovoltaic Power System for Ethiopian Rural School Electrification

Sintayehu Assefa Endaylalu

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Design and Optimization of Standalone Photovoltaic Power System for Ethiopian Rural School Electrification

Sintayehu Assefa Endaylalu

Published in American Journal of Energy Engineering (Volume 6, Issue 2)

Received: 6 July 2018 Accepted: 9 August 2018 Published: 6 September 2018

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Abstract

Power is one of the basic need of the Ethiopian society and organization for cooking, lighting and to run different office or other place electrical devices like TV, radio, computer, fans etc. In Ethiopia grid electrical power supply is still not supplied to rural communities or organization due to the geographical topography difficulty as well as the shortage of grid power and Ethiopia has enough potential of solar energy resource. This paper presents a renewable standalone photo voltaic power system to electrify the selected rural school which are far from grid power supply for ceiling fan, office phone, lighting, computer, printer, radio and TV consumption. Therefore, this study focused on the design and optimization of the power system components by using homer software. The solar resource of the for the school site is collected. The electrical energy demand of the selected school, number of PV modules, payback period and other corresponding components as well as the initial cost estimation of the power system components and optimization of the standalone power system is done by homer software. There are 42 solar photo voltaic modules needed for the estimation energy demand of school with the energy cost of the power generated 0.13$/kwh and cash inflow 3431.1$/year for the payback period of 6.5 years.

Published in	American Journal of Energy Engineering (Volume 6, Issue 2)
DOI	10.11648/j.ajee.20180602.12
Page(s)	15-20
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
Copyright	Copyright © The Author(s), 2018. Published by Science Publishing Group

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Standalone, Homer, Optimization, Payback Period

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Sintayehu Assefa Endaylalu. (2018). Design and Optimization of Standalone Photovoltaic Power System for Ethiopian Rural School Electrification. American Journal of Energy Engineering, 6(2), 15-20. https://doi.org/10.11648/j.ajee.20180602.12

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Sintayehu Assefa Endaylalu. Design and Optimization of Standalone Photovoltaic Power System for Ethiopian Rural School Electrification. Am J Energy Eng. 2018;6(2):15-20. doi: 10.11648/j.ajee.20180602.12

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Mechanical Engineering Department, Debre Berhan University, Debre Berhan, Ethiopia

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