Investigation on value added application of solar phota voltaic systems

Abstract

2 newlineIntroduction newline1.1. Preface newlineEnergy demand of India is rapidly increasing due to increase in population, development in newlinetechnology and expansion in industries which led to increase in dependency on fossil fuels newlineand oil for power generation. The increasing power and oil demand of India in terms of TOE newline(Tons of Oil Equivalent) is shown in Fig. 1.1 that represents an increment of nearly 400 newlinemillion metric tons oil equivalent of power demand and 60 million metric tons oil equivalent newlineof oil demand in every 10 years. By 2040, the power and oil demand will increase up to newline333% and 308% respectively with respect to the present demand. newlineFig.1.1. Power and Oil demand of India by 2040. (Source: IEA India Energy Outlook 2016)[1] newlineThe sources of power generation in India along with their contribution in mitigation of energy newlinedemand are shown in Fig. 1.2. Among all the sources, Coal is found to be the major source of newlinepower generation accounting for almost 61% of total India s generating sources. This is the newlinemost abundant, leading and inexpensive source of power generation with an efficiency of newline32% to 42%. But the main cons are that it creates a huge amount of pollution, severe health newlinehazards and rapid deterioration of fossil fuels. newlineHydro contributes 15% of total India s generating sources which is considered as the oldest, newlinecheapest and the most commonly used source of power generation with an efficiency of 85% newlineto 90%. This type of power generation faces a major drawback of destabilizin newline