Techno-economic Analysis of PV Systems Installed by using Innovative strategies for Smart Sustainable Agriculture Farms /

Abstract

The globe demands clean and eco-friendly renewable energy sources due to a growth in electricity consumption over time and rising worries about the consequences of fossil fuels on the environment (Solar, Wind, and Geothermal). Solar energy is the most plentiful and accessible renewable energy source. As the world expands, so does the demand for electrical energy. Large-scale PV installations are being used to satisfy this need. Renewable energy has recently piqued researchers' interest due to its purity, on-site availability, and lack of greenhouse gas emissions. The power of sunlight is converted into direct current energy via photovoltaic (PV) cells, which are frequently made of semiconductor materials. Growing energy usage, global warming, and climate variability have all heightened awareness of the need to make much better use of the energy resources at our hands. This has become worldwide issue and Pakistan is also suffering badly with this worse situation. The thesis aims to focus on techno-economic and environmental study of Photovoltaic (PV) system for agriculture farms. System Advisor model (SAM) is used for analysis of simulations. Renewable energy system (RES) is the most viable solution in the current paradigm. A transformation is required of energy source from conventional to non-conventional sourced electricity. The purpose of thesis is to introduce a feasible system that meets the agriculture farms’ demand in a much cheaper way and contributes to the central grid the excess electricity. A study carried in Punjab Province to collect the Load input of farmers for designing a suitable system. Five major cities Attock, Mianwali, Faisalabad, Chiniot and Multan of Punjab were selected for survey. K-means was adopted for clustering input of 93 farmers into 9 clusters of related data point for designing the system. Simulation was carried out using annual load data to design an economical and technically feasible system.