Estimation of Solar Energy Potential from Rooftop of Punjab Government Servants Cooperative Housing Society Lahore Using GIS

Luqman, Muhammad; Ahmad, Sajid Rashid; Khan, Samiullah; Ahmad, Usman; Raza, Ahmad; Akmal, Farkhanda

doi:10.4236/sgre.2015.65012

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“…The annual effective solar irradiance varies from 60 to 250 W m 2 worldwide [19]. Currently, new technologies are being employed to generate electricity from harvested solar energy [20].…”

Section: Photovoltaic Techniquesmentioning

confidence: 99%

An Intensive Methodology for Designing Near Zero Energy Public Buildings in Egypt, Office Building as a Case Study

Ismail

El-Razaz

Abdelsalam

2020

JES. Journal of Engineering Sciences

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Building sector consumes 40% of the total energy consumption worldwide. This number is much higher in Egypt. It reached 52% of total energy sold in 2014 with an annual average growth of 5.2%. Public buildings energy consumption; in turn; has a great effect on total energy consumption. In Egypt public buildings represent 40% of the Egyptian building sector. They can give a large potential in reducing total national energy demand and solve a part of energy problem in Egypt. Moreover, they can generate energy to be nearly zero energy building or even zero energy building "off grid connection buildings" in an ambitious plan. Using renewable energy techniques (such as; solar cells& wind turbines) is also considered an optimum solution in this field. This paper targets zero energy public building in Egypt. It suggests an intensive design methodology which based on three major phases: first-is to design an energy efficient public building, second-is to reduce the building energy consumption to the minimum, then the third-tends to produce energy and cover the building needs. To check the efficiency of the proposed methodology, an experimental study is applied on an office building model as case study of public building in Egypt. Design Builder simulation program is used to calculate and compare the building energy consumption in the three successive phases. After applying "the intensive methodology for designing zero energy public buildings" on the proposed office building model, energy consumption indicates initial energy reduction and the consumption became 245232.39 kWh/yr. (28kWh/m2.). Once again, at the end of the consequential phases, the installed photovoltaic panels succeeded in producing 107923.2 kWh/year, and an array of 408 microwind turbines added 138964.8 kWh/yr-the sum of the energy produced comparable with the mentioned consumption conclude mathematically zero needs. At the end, the experiment shows that becoming near zero energy building, or zero energy building, or even energy building plus can be practically true in the upcoming near future. Moreover, calculations and comparisons support using the intensive methodology in designing zero energy public building in Egypt.

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“…The annual effective solar irradiance varies from 60 to 250 W m 2 worldwide [19]. Currently, new technologies are being employed to generate electricity from harvested solar energy [20].…”

Section: Photovoltaic Techniquesmentioning

confidence: 99%

An Intensive Methodology for Designing Near Zero Energy Public Buildings in Egypt, Office Building as a Case Study

Ismail

El-Razaz

Abdelsalam

2020

JES. Journal of Engineering Sciences

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“…Photovoltaic devices are rugged and simple in design and require very little maintenance, constructed as stand-alone systems to give outputs from microwatts to megawatts and have been used as the power sources for calculators, watches, water pumping, remote buildings, communications, satellites and space vehicles, and even multimegawatt scale power plants. With such a vast array of applications, the demand for photovoltaics is increasing every year [17].…”

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confidence: 99%

Use of Renewable Energy for Electrification of Rural Community to Stop Migration of Youth from Rural Area to Urban: A Case Study of Tanzania

Melkior¹,

Tlustý²,

Müller³

2018

Dependability Engineering

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Rural electrification is the key in developing countries to encourage youth and skilled personnel to stay in rural for production activities. Lack of grid network in Tanzania currently discourages youth and skilled personnel to live in rural areas. Tanzania has diverse renewable energy which needs to be developed for electricity generation. Most of these sources are found in rural areas but they are not developed and grid network are not extended because of low population density. The government has put in place policy which encourages small power producers to develop renewable energy resources. Energy produced would be sold to the community directly or to the government owned company for grid integration. This paper discussed three major renewable energy sources such as wind, solar and hydro power. Electrifying rural areas will encourage youth to reside in their communities and engaging themselves in production activities like farming and livestock keeping. Also communication among communities and networks between rural-urban would be improved. Establishment of small industries would lead more farm products and earn more money. Therefore, the strong links between rural-urban communities would be strengthened; hence youth migration would be stopped naturally.

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“…The rooftop Solar Energy Potential of Lahore City, Pakistan was estimated using GIS technique. The high-resolution Imagery was used to digitize the rooftops [5]. The rooftop solar potential map of Caceres, Spain was estimated by the implementation of Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) data of high density [6].…”

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confidence: 99%

Application of Maximum Power Point Tracking Algorithm for Determination of the Solar Electric Potential in Gorkha Bazzar, Nepal

Khatiwada¹,

Dhakal²,

Shrestha³

2021

Preprint

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It is inevitable fact that the use of excessive fossil fuel has establisheditself as a major concern for the existence of living kinds in the world. So thedevelopment of renewable energy source has been the must task to minimize theenergy crisis as well as the problems created by the use of fossil fuels. Nepal is acountry with geographical and climatic diversity in South East Asia with meansolar radiation of 4.7 kWh/m2 per day and a surface area of 1, 47,181 km2. It isthe region in South East Asia with a tremendous amount of solar energy potential.Among three major geographical regions namely Himalayan, Hilly and Terairegion, this study has been performed at Gorkha Municipality, located at centralNepal in Hilly region to determine the solar energy potential for grid-connectedphotovoltaic systems installed on rooftops. A methodology was developed, inwhich the characteristics of the buildings were categorized, followed by thecalculation of the roof surface area where photovoltaic panels could be installed.After that, the mean solar irradiation characteristics were defined as well as thetechnical parameters of the photovoltaic systems. With all these factors, theamount of electricity that could be potentially generated per year by solar panelsis estimated. Finally, the calculations were made to estimate the amount ofelectricity that could be generated with the implementation of incrementalconductance method for tracking the maximum Power Point and also, the systemwas developed using Arduino, PHP programming language, current and voltagesensors which aids for the maintenance of the installed photovoltaic cells.

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Estimation of Solar Energy Potential from Rooftop of Punjab Government Servants Cooperative Housing Society Lahore Using GIS

Cited by 30 publications

References 10 publications

An Intensive Methodology for Designing Near Zero Energy Public Buildings in Egypt, Office Building as a Case Study

An Intensive Methodology for Designing Near Zero Energy Public Buildings in Egypt, Office Building as a Case Study

Use of Renewable Energy for Electrification of Rural Community to Stop Migration of Youth from Rural Area to Urban: A Case Study of Tanzania

Application of Maximum Power Point Tracking Algorithm for Determination of the Solar Electric Potential in Gorkha Bazzar, Nepal

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