Development of a PV system at ICT Laboratories in Oman – Overview of technology development

Abstract

Energy plays a vital role in the social and economic development of a country. Solar energy plays a significant role in the replacement of fossil resources having limited availability to produce clean energy.  The advancement in technology able to generate lower cost power used for daily electricity demand in a laboratory / building. This research focus on recent development in solar PV module and to compute the cost of a solar module for a laboratory in engineering department of ICT, Ibra, North Sharqiyah Region in Sultanate of Oman. The cost computation is based on the global solar radiation data available in North Sharqiyah region of Oman to calculate and assess the working principle of PV system. The objective of this research is to compute optimal size of a solar PV model suitable to Materials Laboratory based on the solar radiation data available.