Carbon Emission Analysis of Off-Grid Standalone Integrated System for Residential/Commercial Loads

Abstract

The world’s most critical challenges centre around the depletion of fossil fuel reserves promote to discover solutions that preserve non-renewable resources and transition to renewable resources. Another critical issue revolves around the increasing levels of undesirable heat trapping gases like carbon dioxide, demanding urgent efforts to mitigate their impact. Renewable energy systems encompass technologies capable of generating electricity utilizing sources such as Wind, Solar, Hydroelectric, Biomass and other sustainable energy resources. Integrated systems introduce a perspective for the temporal alignment of intermittent renewable energy sources to model different power plant designs and subsequently analyse these designs to determine the most efficient configuration in terms of factors such as operational expenses, Net Present Cost (NPC), comparison of emissions and economic assessment. This work aims to design a reliable optimal system by integrating Diesel Generator (DG), PV system and battery to meet specific load demand of a residential loads and commercial load near Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (JNTU), Hyderabad, Telangana, India. The optimized results provide four distinct categories findings. The suggested design of hybrid system with Solar PV and set of small Diesel generators which is equivalent to large rating along with converter and battery is found to be an economically efficient choice regarding operating costs and emissions of gases.