We all are aware of increasing rate of solar panel usage in urban cities. More and more residential societies are now getting aware and providing nature friendly way to tap solar energy. Some, power the street lamps, some provide hot water etc. Taking this a step forward, how about powering residential invertors with solar power utilizing the same setup?
We observe scheduled power cuts due to shortage of electricity. The ones who have liberty of invertors, enjoy uninterrupted power supply. The invertors get charged with electricity at regular time and is ready to be used during next power cut. In essence, the scheduled power cut is not saving electricity completely. A small change, to charge these invertors using solar power (whenever available) could save some electricity for sure. Aggregating this from one house to one society to one area to one city and so on could definitely save substantial energy. This would ensure complete usage of solar power and reap full benefits from the solar panel setup which currently is largely under used.
The technology is not new, it's not even a rocket science. Just that, its not been exploited to its fullest.
Ideas awaited.
Good idea. What are the other areas where solar power can be used? Think think and think...
ReplyDeleteIts not that the technology is not been exploited to its fullest. But from my point of view there are couple of challenges which can be addressed
ReplyDelete1. COST: Basic cost of the solar panel is fay way from being affordable for common man.
2. SPACE: A simple solar panel to charge street lamp might be of size 2' X 2', and thus to setup the generator would eat up too much of space. You would definitely need more area to setup more solar panels to collect more energy.
check this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_in_India
http://www.solar-islands.com/
Thats a lovely idea. But do you think that is going to solve the problem. We will definitely save the precious electricity but it will not benefit us. Our real problem is the corruption in the board. People consuming the most amount of electricy get theirs bills managed by just paying 10 - 15% of their total amount.I think that should be straightened first.
ReplyDeleteSolar power is expensive. Also, there is a lot of ignorancy (if that's a even a word), about this technology.
ReplyDeleteI for one, have no idea how viable it is, how many panels do I need ;-), where do I find a vendor etc.
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This is a good idea and could be implemented by Housing societies where they employ inverters for powering common amenities. The cost of putting solar panels could be detrimental for an individual, but could be manageable for a housing society. The same could be applied for commercial property. Say for ex. the ICC tower
ReplyDeleteIts good article....I also found one good link about it
ReplyDeletehttp://www.solarhome.org/solargenerator.html..
have a look on it:)
what is P&L for this. What is the incentive and why I would do it, instead of burn some gas
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