SOLAR HOME PV GRID CONNECTED SYSTEM

Center of Renewable energy and desalination water – Tripoli

Faculty of engineering – Gharian

This paper is intended to describe the procedure of sizing a PV grid connected solar home

system (SHS). A moderate house in Gharian city was selected for the said purpose. The load

profile of the house was estimated excluding heating and air conditioning loads. PV system

sizing was done by utilizing the estimated energy consumption and the climatic data for the

selected site. The energy produced by the sized PV system is estimated and the main

parameters of the system performance were investigated. The results showed that PV grid

connected SHS could be used to fulfill the load requirement fully or partially and also could

feed the surplus energy to the grid during day time.