Understanding the Present and the Future Electricity Needs: Consequences for Design of Future Solar Home Systems for Off-Grid Rural Electrification

Thomas den Heeten; Nishant Narayan; Jan-Carel Diehl; Jeroen Verschelling; Sacha Silvester; Jelena Popovic; Pavol Bauer; Miro Zeman

doi:10.23919/DUE.2017.7931816

Understanding the Present and the Future Electricity Needs: Consequences for Design of Future Solar Home Systems for Off-Grid Rural Electrification

Thomas den Heeten, Nishant Narayan, Jan-Carel Diehl, Jeroen Verschelling, Sacha Silvester, Jelena Popovic, Pavol Bauer, Miro Zeman

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Abstract

Solar Home Systems (SHSs) can fulfil the basic energy needs of the globally unelectrified population. With costs as one of the biggest barriers for SHS uptake, optimizing the system size with energy needs is crucial. Where most solutions focus only on the present needs, this work also addresses the future energy needs. The methodology includes extensive mapping of the current electricity needs in rural Cambodia through data analysis on existing SHSs in the field. Additionally, a 2-month field research was carried out in Cambodia to assess the qualitative state of electricity usage and investigate the future (2021) energy needs. A data analysis was performed on 111 SHSs (100 Wp, 1200 Wh).
SHS users were found to have a mean energy consumption of 310 Wh/day, with σ = 159 Wh. Most energy was consumed at night. The field research showed a clear demand for more energy and more appliances. The appliances attached to SHS in the future will be more diverse in power consumption and usage duration, resulting in a wide variety of energy consumption and high power peaks, causing fast and deep battery discharges. Three load profiles are presented. Solutions are discussed that can be applied to ensure the SHSs fit with future energy needs.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 25th Domestic Use of Energy Conference
Subtitle of host publication	Towards Sustainable Energy Solutions For The Developing World
Place of Publication	CapeTown, SA
Publisher	Cape Peninsula University of Technology
Pages	8-15
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Electronic)	978-0-9946759-2-7
ISBN (Print)	978-1-5090-6433-5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.23919/DUE.2017.7931816
Publication status	Published - 4 May 2017
Event	25th Domestic Use of Energy Conference: Towards Sustainable Energy Solutions for the Developing World - Cape Town, South Africa Duration: 3 Apr 2017 → 5 Apr 2017 Conference number: 25

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Conference	25th Domestic Use of Energy Conference
Abbreviated title	DUE 2017
Country/Territory	South Africa
City	Cape Town
Period	3/04/17 → 5/04/17

Keywords

energy consumption
energy matching
load profile
low-income countries
solar home system
rural electrification

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den Heeten, T., Narayan, N., Diehl, J.-C., Verschelling, J., Silvester, S., Popovic, J., Bauer, P., & Zeman, M. (2017). Understanding the Present and the Future Electricity Needs: Consequences for Design of Future Solar Home Systems for Off-Grid Rural Electrification. In Proceedings of the 25th Domestic Use of Energy Conference: Towards Sustainable Energy Solutions For The Developing World (pp. 8-15). Cape Peninsula University of Technology. https://doi.org/10.23919/DUE.2017.7931816

den Heeten, Thomas ; Narayan, Nishant ; Diehl, Jan-Carel et al. / Understanding the Present and the Future Electricity Needs : Consequences for Design of Future Solar Home Systems for Off-Grid Rural Electrification. Proceedings of the 25th Domestic Use of Energy Conference: Towards Sustainable Energy Solutions For The Developing World. CapeTown, SA : Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2017. pp. 8-15

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Understanding the Present and the Future Electricity Needs: Consequences for Design of Future Solar Home Systems for Off-Grid Rural Electrification. / den Heeten, Thomas; Narayan, Nishant; Diehl, Jan-Carel et al.
Proceedings of the 25th Domestic Use of Energy Conference: Towards Sustainable Energy Solutions For The Developing World. CapeTown, SA: Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2017. p. 8-15.

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den Heeten T, Narayan N, Diehl JC, Verschelling J, Silvester S, Popovic J et al. Understanding the Present and the Future Electricity Needs: Consequences for Design of Future Solar Home Systems for Off-Grid Rural Electrification. In Proceedings of the 25th Domestic Use of Energy Conference: Towards Sustainable Energy Solutions For The Developing World. CapeTown, SA: Cape Peninsula University of Technology. 2017. p. 8-15 doi: 10.23919/DUE.2017.7931816

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