Abstract:
Daily headlines make everyone aware of the dangerous long-term effects of power generation
from the fossil fuels. It is widely believed that continuing to depend on fossil fuels to generate
electricity can cause serious environmental problems. Moreover, fossil fuels are finite in amount
and cost a lot of money as well. Hence, renewable energy is a potential solution to meet up
electricity demand for the developing countries like Bangladesh. Among all the renewable
technologies, solar photo voltaic (PV) is the most potential, favorable and promising one which
converts solar energy into electrical energy, including or excluding battery backup. Although
solar technology has nearly been successful in rural areas where most of the technologies are
adopted based on Solar Home System (SHS), it has not yet been effective in urban areas after the
imposed rule of meeting 3% of light fan load of a building. We have investigated the installed
solar rooftop of 86 houses in Narayanganj, where the solar system of most of the houses were
found inactive. Among them only 50 systems are active. In this thesis the overall analysis of
urban solar prospect has been done in three layers based on this investigation. A comparable
discussion on cost efficiency of different solar panels has been given depending on amounts of
loads being run. Efficient batteries are modeled by HOMER in context of Bangladesh to
improvise PV systems. A cost analysis has been performed by software HOMER for different
types of watt peak ranges. Apart from these, a renovated design of solar system has been
proposed to make urban rooftop solar installation effective and successful.
