Optimization of 01 MW on-grid solar power plant /

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.