Abstract:
Prevailed energy crisis and its high cost has become one of the most critical challenge
that pushed the people around the world to look for the renewable energy resources to
accomplish the rising demand and to overcome the scarceness of currently available
resources.
In the Islamic Republic of Pakistan (Pakistan), the power generation and supply mainly
include thermal (fossil fuel, natural gas and coal), hydro and nuclear power plants. The
current power deficit in the country is 7,000 MW. With Pakistan being one of the
world's richest areas of solar energy, where annual sunshine duration reaches above
2,500h that is among the world’s top, it was the need of time to conserve the power
available in the country and to shift on to renewable energy sources like Solar Energy.
In 2015-16, I worked on installation of 1MW Grid-Tied Solar Power System project in
Parliament House, Islamabad which involved designing, installation of panels and
associated accessories like Inverters and Panels.
As Project Manager, I did my best to select the best available equipments that included
solar panels and we were quite successful in that. However, still there is lot of room for
improvement of overall system efficiency and the door was always open for working
on it. This has encouraged me to study and research about different techniques that
would help us improve the year around efficiency of our 1MW Grid Tied Solar Power
System Project installed in Parliament House.
