{"id":579,"date":"2024-03-10T18:54:12","date_gmt":"2024-03-10T18:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pri.tum.ac.ke\/?page_id=579"},"modified":"2024-03-10T18:54:13","modified_gmt":"2024-03-10T18:54:13","slug":"decarbonization-mitigation-cost-of-replacing-diesel-generators-with-residential-rooftop-solar-pv-in-mombasa","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pri.tum.ac.ke\/?page_id=579","title":{"rendered":"Decarbonization Mitigation Cost Of Replacing Diesel Generators With Residential Rooftop Solar PV In Mombasa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Bornvince O. Odhiambo, Jobunga Eric, Sameer Bachani<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Abstract<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The current pursuit of low-carbon and sustainable source of energy places photovoltaic (PV) power system in advantageous position as a substitute for a DG backup system. The goal of this study was to calculate the amount of the CO<sub>2<\/sub> emission mitigated when solar PV power system replaces a similar diesel backup generator working for twelve hours. Environmental results show that the total annual amount of CO<sub>2<\/sub> emissions avoided when solar photovoltaic batteries are used instead of DG power backup system was 5.84 tCO2\/year giving an average cost parameter (penalty for CO<sub>2<\/sub> generation) of $9.62. Simulation results gave the available energy as 3746.40 kWh\/year, reference yield of 5.55 kWh\/kW, array yield of 4.18 kWh\/kW, array losses of 0.61 kWh\/kW, capacity factor as 21.23%, FF as 0.68, PR as 73.6% and PV array efficiency of 13.19%. The average amount of CO2 emission avoided was 7.95 tCO2\/year with annual environmental cost of $116.18<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Keywords<\/strong>: Solar Photovoltaic, Mombasa, PVsyst software, GHG, cost of CO<sub>2 <\/sub>gas generation penalty, diesel generator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bornvince O. Odhiambo, Jobunga Eric, Sameer Bachani Abstract The current pursuit of low-carbon and sustainable source of energy places photovoltaic (PV) power system in advantageous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":113,"menu_order":10,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-579","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pri.tum.ac.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pri.tum.ac.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pri.tum.ac.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pri.tum.ac.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pri.tum.ac.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pri.tum.ac.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":580,"href":"https:\/\/pri.tum.ac.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/579\/revisions\/580"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pri.tum.ac.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pri.tum.ac.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}