Solar Power plant - is it possible?

[Zero_one]

Re: Solar Power plant - is it possible?

@Guppshupper

So in short - fuel based have periodical expense , while solar has one time expense. But if you compare total cost - Solar is very very expensive. Only benefit is lower carbon footprint and less dependency on oil - thats it. In terms of cash, solar has a long way to go before its cost is affordable for economy like ours.

I don’t know about the benefits for the economy but at least one example showed me sofar that the breakeven doesn’t take decades … i installed myself a 1.5KWp unit including dry batteries at my grandparents house in a village close to Sargodha. their monthly bill was around Rs.4k. Panels and Charge controller were German products, Batteries and the Inverter purchased in Pakistan.

6 persons use 5 rooms and 2 bathrooms. 12 Tubelights, 1 Full size Refridgerator, 1 24" TV, 1 sat receiver, 1 iron, 7 ceiling and 3 pedastel fans. Of course not all power consumer are active at the same time during normal use but we managed to to test run everything for several hours and no issues. Now they got 24h/day power with no interruption and the whole set up cost around Rs. 220k … break even in around 5-6 years and not 20 years … knowing that the lifecycle of the components installed at site is minimum 10-12 years if serviced carefully (solar panels even upto 25 years with 85% performance guarantee)

Yet this set up was done in 2 days time without long term survey and measurements in order to evaluate and plan a unit properly … means their is room for improvement