Publication: Study on solar power plant of energy demand in usm engineering campus
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Date
2010-04-01
Authors
Mohamed Fadzil, Mohamed Nashriq
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This project presents the study of solar power plant for energy demand in USM Engineering Campus. The research of solar power plant needs an effective strategy and systematic modus operandi to achieve the maximum performance result. Otherwise, the right number of solar panel installed cannot cater sufficient electrical energy to energy demand in USM Engineering Campus and provide minimal cost of installation. Thus, the performance of a photovoltaic array system depend on the environmental factors such as solar radiation and weather condition for finding out the optimum of generating energy of solar cell and then sizing the right number of solar panel. One of the advantages of connecting utility power grid to the PV system is as a back-up power supply. This is because electrical supply will be interrupted if PV array cannot generate output power to the load demand. Electrical energy usage among user in USM Engineering Campus is 59000000 Wh/day after adding power losses. Moreover, the average daily solar radiation at campus environment is 584.29 Wh/day. The final result of this research are 99588 solar panels needed to cater the electrical supply to the whole campus and area of installation the solar power plant for USM Engineering Campus is 60101.2 m2 due to restricted area in USM Engineering Campus. The total initial cost of installing the solar power plant is MYR 842,379,141.20. Thus, TNB must supply the balanced electrical energy needed for campus’s energy demand which is about 20930775 Wh/day.