Design and Analysis of a Stand-Alone PV System for a Rural House in Pakistan

Abstract EN

In this paper, thermal modeling of a typical rural house in Pakistan has been done using BEopt, to determine the hourly load profile.

Using the load data, the design of a stand-alone PV system has been completed using HOMER Pro.

The designed system consists of a 5.8 kW PV with eight batteries of 12 V, 255 Ah, and a 1.4 kW inverter.

The system analyses show that such system can support mainly lighting and appliance load in a rural house.

The dynamic model of the designed system has been simulated in MATLAB-Simulink.

Perturbation and observation-based algorithm has been used for maximum power extraction from PV.

Simulation results indicate that the system can provide a stable voltage and frequency for the domestic load.

The method and analysis presented here can be used for the PV system design for other parts of the world.