Design and assessment of solar photovoltaic system for a village of Rajasthan

Abstract

In this paper, a prefeasibility study is done for solar PV system for a village (Khoti) of Jhalawar, Rajasthan, India. This study is done to calculate PV system size and performance analysis of the system. In this study, According to the load of village, maximum energy required in kWh for a day is calculated and according to this energy a photovoltaic system of 587.7 kW is calculated. The performance analysis of 587.7 kW Photovoltaic system for both grid connected and off grid system is done by using an online tool Photovoltaic Geographical Information System (PVGIS). PVGIS is fast, easy, and reliable tool for performance analysis of both grid connected and stand-alone PV system.