Open AccessRooftop Solar Installations for Demand Side Management - A Case Study
Author(s) -
Vijaykumar Pundlik Sonawane,
Manoj Kumar Soni,
Ajay Aniket Lad
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
iop conference series. materials science and engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1757-899X
pISSN - 1757-8981
DOI - 10.1088/1757-899x/1116/1/012068
Subject(s) - renewable energy , schedule , tariff , electricity , environmental economics , demand side , energy storage , net metering , energy management , electricity generation , distributed generation , solar power , computer science , automotive engineering , engineering , business , power (physics) , electrical engineering , economics , energy (signal processing) , physics , statistics , mathematics , quantum mechanics , international trade , operating system
Renewable energy options, especially solar energy show a strong potential to replace conventional fossil fuel based electricity generation. Demand Side Management is a method of influencing the electricity consumers’ demand for electricity and thus reducing the load on distribution and generation companies. With the help of Demand Side Management tools, consumers are able to modify their demand in such a way that installation of new power plants could be avoided. This paper studies the load pattern in the industrial sector of Jalgaon, Maharashtra and their potential for rooftop solar installations. The impact of rooftop solar on the consumption schedule is studied considering the ‘Time of Day’ (TOD) tariff in place. Further, the importance of storage system is studied by comparing the daily savings for cases with and without storage availability. For the case when battery storage is available, a linear programming based optimization model is used to estimate the maximum possible savings from the installation. To run the optimization, simulation software used is MATLAB.