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Feasibility Study of Solar Energy Integration for Electricity Production in Kuwait
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International Journal of Engineering and Technical Research (IJETR)
ISSN: 2321-0869 (O) 2454-4698 (P), Volume-5, Issue-1, May 2016
house, the number of barrel saved per yearly is equal to
TABLE -3-
1,345106 barrels. Taking into consideration that the life
TOTAL COST FOR 12,000 HOUSES IN 25 YEARS
cycle of the solar panels is 25 years, so each house will save
about 8.075106 oil barrels. For saving of taxes under Kyoto Description Cost in KD
Protocol, each house will save around 10000 KD in the 25 6
150 of Panels for 12,000 houses 54 10
years period. In addition, the saving of CO2 per house will be 6
Installation of 150 of Panels for 12,000 108.5 10
2,175 short tons. houses
6
B. Case Studies for 12,000 and 300,000 Houses Inverters Cost for 150 of Panels for 12,000 27.3 10
houses
6
Following the same steps for the one house case study and Mounts, Racks, and Wiring for 12,000 houses 61.2 10
6
considering that the Public Authority for Housing Welfare in Maintenance per Year for 12,000 houses 5.4 10
6
Kuwait is trying to cover almost 12,000 houses every year, the Initial Cost for 12,000 houses 256.5 10
study is one more time applied on the cases 12,000 houses and
300,000 houses. TABLE -4-
MONEY SAVING IN 25 YEARS
Fig. (5), shows the increasing cost for supplying Description Cost in KD
12000 with electricity along 25 years using fuel [11]. Tables 3 Fuel cost 9
98.55010
and 4 are showing the total cost and savings for the 12000 Solar energy cost 9
74.89810
houses case while Tables 5 and 6 are showing the same for the Savings 9
23.65210
300,000 houses case. Finally, the cost per kWh using solar =
Total cost of the project for 25 years/Total production for 25 TABLE -5-
years kWh cost = 32,130 KD /1314000 kWh = 0.024 KD TOTAL COST FOR 300,000 HOUSES IN 25 YEARS
Description Cost in KD
Comparing the result to the cost of kWh using fuel,
which is 0.045-0.060 KD, the cost using solar is cheaper than 12
Fuel cost 2.463 10
using fuel. 12
Solar energy cost 1.872 10
Savings 12
0.591 10
TABLE -6-
SAVINGS FOR 25 YEARS
Description Data/Cost in KD
Fig. (5)-Accumulated Cost of Electricity for 12,000 Houses Using gas and
oil for a period of 25 years. TABLE -7-
TOTAL COST OF 1 PARKING LOT
C. Case study of Parking Lots
Description Data/Cost
In this study, an on grid system will be implemented as
mentioned previously with the same materials that are used in Panels Type Photovoltaic
Panels Brand Company DM Solar
Table 1. The structure of the idea is to implement one solar Panels Efficiency 14%
panel within each 12.5 m2. The panel can produce 1250watt Panels Size 12.5
(1 m2 produces 100 watt). Panels Cost 375 KD
Table 7 shows the technical aspects and detailed cost for Panels Installation Cost 754 KD
Inverter Brand Company Solectria Renewables
implementing the solar system in one parking lot. The study is
Inverter Cost 118 KD
concerned with 6 different parking lots as follows: Kuwait Mounts, Racks and Wiring Cost 424 KD
University (KU), Ministries zone, Ministry of Water and Maintenance per Year 38 KD
Electricity, Scientific Center, Entertainment City and Kuwait TABLE -8-
Airport. Each parking lot contains parking spaced stated in NUMBER OF PANELS PER PARKING LOT
Table-8-, where each parking slot requires one solar panel. Number of Parking
Parking Lot Location
Spaces/Number of Solar Panels
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TOTAL COST FOR ALL PARKING LOTS
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IV. CONCLUSION
Kuwait is one of the leading countries in oil and gas
production, throughout the last years, electricity production in
Kuwait relied on nonrenewable sources. This paper
introduced a feasibility study of integrating PV panels within
a grid connected system for producing electricity in Kuwait.
The study was concerned with houses and parking lots, it
targeted implementing the PV system for 300,000 houses.
The study also considered implementing the PV system for
six parking lots. Results showed the capability of saving both
fuel and money on the basis of long term investment of 25
years. Other gained benefit is less CO2 emissions for much
clean environment. The study gave a lot of promising data
showing great benefits for further application of the proposed
system allover Kuwait.
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