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COBEM 2019
25th International Congress of Mechanical Engineering
ASSESTMENT OF A PV SYSTEM IN A BRAZILIAN PUBLIC UNIVERSITY: A TECHNICAL-ECONOMIC ANALYSIS
Submission Author:
Gabriel Marques Pinto , MG
Co-Authors:
Tatiane Caetano, Gabriel Marques Pinto, Túlio Augusto Zucareli de Souza, Christian Jeremi R. Coronado
Presenter: Tatiane Caetano
doi://10.26678/ABCM.COBEM2019.COB2019-1373
Abstract
PV solar has been showing to be an excellent option for electricity generation. This is also a renewable, non-pollutant source of energy. Despite not being any novelty, the growth of this type of energy in Brazil has increased particularly in the last three years due to governmental incentives for small-scale distributed generation. This study aims to evaluate, from a technical and economic point of view, the viability of installing a PV system for supplying the electrical demand of professors’ offices at a building in a Brazilian public university. For that, the system was projected through theoretical methodology and further compared to the results from computational software PVSyst™. The economic analysis was based on Monte Carlo method using software Crystal Ball™ trough statistical analysis of payback and Net Present Value for various scenarios. Results have shown the investment in such systems becomes more attractive as financing grows. This research allowed to confirm the applicability of PV technology for this particular case study, both technically and economically. The investment on PV panels has been proved to be a suitable option for Brazilian universities to reduce expenses on electricity and to redirect cash for projects and researches.
Keywords
PV System, Economic analysis, Computer simulation, Photovoltaic Solar Energy, PV system dimensioning
