Rural electrification in India and pre-sizing of solar home systems

Abstract

There is a wide gap between the demand and supply of electrical energy. Far away rural areas are having dispersed loads in nature and hence increased transmission and distribution losses. Thus increasing electrical demand drives the attention towards available and feasible choices of distributed generation. India being a tropical country, solar is the natural choice of sustainable alternative. An attempt has been made in this paper to assess the issues of rural electrification India and presizing of distributed solar generation.

Performance investigation of simplified PWM MPPT approach for direct PV‐fed switched reluctance motor in water pumping system

“…In a developing country like India, where the majority of the population of about 70% is dependent on agriculture as their primary occupation, the standalone PV‐fed WPS plays a dominant role in the socio‐economic growth. In this context, various reforms for PV‐fed WPS were initiated by developing countries like India for the development of remote and rural sectors [1, 2]. One of the key elements in PV‐fed WPS is the variable speed drive (VSD) system, presently conventional electrical motors (induction motors, synchronous motors, permanent magnet synchronous motors and permanent magnet DC motors) are mostly used.…”