Conference publication
Abstract: Solar energy is one of the sources of power that is obtained in a natural
way. Many countries, especially developing countries are making use of the
renewable energy for the benefit of their communities, however, the issue of
counting the benefit of using solar energy, mainly on cost bases remained
undefined to many users/consumers at their premises. In this paper, the research
on how thermal solar power can effectively be used in the house to minimize the
cost, its requirements and the payback money upon investing on solar power is
being addressed. The scenario was based on comparing the cost spends by the
residential house with thermal solar power and another house without thermal
solar power. The analysis shows that the electric energy saving per year when
using solar power is about 51.52% for houses and flats, with payback for the
investment cost within 3-4 years. The paper also discussed the building blocks for
low-cost ICT infrastructures to deploy solar technologies.
Sida of Sweden