Quaid-e-Azam Solar Power park: Prospects and challenges

Khaliq, Asad; Ikram, Ali

doi:10.1109/pgsret.2015.7312186

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“…(3) Socio-economic factors (I 3 ): in order to minimize the cost of building solar farms and to reduce the cost of transporting electricity, solar farms should be located close to the existing transmission grids [59].…”

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Decision Support Technique Based on Neutrosophic Yager Aggregation Operators: Application in Solar Power Plant Locations—Case Study of Bahawalpur, Pakistan

Khan

Abdullah

Ashraf

et al. 2020

Mathematical Problems in Engineering

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The problem of energy crisis and environmental pollution has been mitigated by the generation and use of solar power; however, the choice of locations for solar power plants is a difficult task because the decision-making process includes political, socio-economic, and environmental aspects. Thus, several adverse consequences have been created by the choice of suboptimal locations. The objective of this paper is to address the integrated qualitative and quantitative multicriteria decision-making framework for the selection of solar power plant locations. Neutrosophic sets (NSs) are the latest extension of the ordinary fuzzy sets. The main characteristic of the neutrosophic sets is satisfying the condition that the sum of the truth, indeterminacy, and falsity grades must be at least zero and at most three. In this research, we establish novel operational laws based on the Yager t-norm and t-conorm under neutrosophic environments (NE). Furthermore, based on these Yager operational laws, we develop a list of novel aggregation operators under NE. In addition, we design an algorithm to tackle the uncertainty to investigating the best solar power plant selection in five potential locations in Pakistan. A numerical example of solar power plant location problem is considered to show the supremacy and effectiveness of the proposed study. Also, a detailed comparison is constructed to evaluate the performance and validity of the established technique.

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“…(4) Environmental factors (I 4 ): solar farms in areas where they negligibly interfere with existing land use outside protected areas, artificial surfaces, wetlands, aquatic areas, and forestry areas should be installed [59]. It is necessary to keep all the mechanical parts of solar park away from the water.…”

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Decision Support Technique Based on Neutrosophic Yager Aggregation Operators: Application in Solar Power Plant Locations—Case Study of Bahawalpur, Pakistan

Khan

Abdullah

Ashraf

et al. 2020

Mathematical Problems in Engineering

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“…Recently, Indonesia also introduced a net-metering scheme [13]. Thailand and Malaysia are also initiating a net-metering mechanism [9]. In India, Maharashta was the first state to availed netmetering.…”

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“…One of the examples for the advancement of solar power within Pakistan is by setting up the world's largest solar power plant named Quaid-e-Azam Solar Park (QASP). QASP is located in Bahawalpur (Punjab) having a capacity of 1000 MW with Commercial Operation Date (COD) set for 2020 [9]. Up to now, 4 units are in operation and synchronized with the national grid, each having a 100 MW capacity [9].…”

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Critical Analysis and Application of Net-Metering Practice in MEPCO

Hassan

Umer

Rashid

et al. 2020

International Journal of Photoenergy

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The electrical infrastructure around the globe is expanding at a rapid rate for the sake of fulfilling power demands in the domestic, commercial and entertainment industries aiming to boost the living standards. In this regard, renewable energy sources (RES) are globally accepted potential candidates for maintaining inexhaustible, clean, and reliable electricity with a supplementary feature of economic prospect. The efficiency of power distribution at reduced cost to the consumers can be further enhanced by introducing a two-way billing system so-called net-metering which has the potential to overcome issues such as voltage regulation, power blackouts, overstressed grid and need for expensive storage systems thereby making it beneficial for the grid and the end user. This envisioning has encouraged the Government of Pakistan to install net-metering infrastructure at places which accommodate surplus renewable energy reserves. According to the Electric Power Act 1997, the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) issued the net-metering rules and regulations in September 2015 by the endorsement of Federal Government which allowed the distribution companies in Pakistan to buy surplus electricity units generated by the consumers in order to partly reimburse the units imported from the utility grid. The aim behind this research work is to promote renewable energy utilization through net-metering mechanism in order to achieve maximum power. The export of units from consumer side to utility grid and vice versa can be made through bidirectional energy meter. In this paper, a solar net-metering analysis has been carried out on ETAP software to determine its benefits in a distribution network. Different scenarios have been investigated, and it is concluded that solar net-metering technique has multiple influential benefits, e.g., improvement in voltage regulation, reduction in transmission and distribution losses, increase in power availability, less billing to consumers, and reduction of loading on utility grid.

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