A Reference Book on Forecasting and Planning of Off-Grid Rural Electrification using Renewable Energy Sources

This book deals with Global and Indian scenario of solar, wind, biomass, micro hydro renewable energy sources with forecasting and planning of off grid villages using renewable energy sources. A detailed data based energy scenario is given to apprise the reader regarding the potential of renewable energy sources at Global platform and Indian platform. The theme of book is to think about the people without electricity in 21st century and potential of renewable sources to bridge the gap. The first chapter of the book deals with Global PV power energy scenario which is available naturally world wise. In addition to this latest detailed data of solar energy continent wise is also given. The solar potential of top ten countries and status of their latest utilization is also mentioned in this chapter. The second chapter covers the Indian PV energy scenario and state wise potential. Fortunately, Indian continent is full of solar potential and we are progressing well to harness this energy to meet the common people and to save the environment. A detailed commissioned of various solar projects state wise is also covered in this chapter. The decline of solar power tariff over the years and various incentives under Jawahrlal Solar Mission is mentioned in this chapter. The latest detailed data of off- grid solar and solar roof-top projects in various state of India is also depicted in this chapter with the help of tabular form and bar chart. The third chapter deals with various techniques for PV energy forecasting and evaluation methods, which is must for the planning. The required various input parameters for forecasting and their pre-processing is described in this chapter. Various classification of PV forecasting based on forecasting horizon, historical data and techniques is covered in this chapter. The performance evaluation PV forecasting methods is also given in end of this chapter. The fourth chapter covers Global wind energy scenario covering the wind power status and growth world wise over the years This chapter also cover the status of future forecasted wind power and status of leading countries year wise in the area of wing energy. The fifth chapter of the book includes the Indian scenario of wind energy, growth, and state wise wind power status. This chapter also covers major India’s wind farms, geographical site location of wind power in India and major wind energy companies in India. This chapter also includes wind power polices of India, offshore wind power plants in India and their advantages. The sixth chapter of the book covers various wind power forecasting methods and their classification. The classification of various forecasting methods, which are based on historical data, time scale based and technique / model based is also covered in this chapter. In the last of this chapter various performance evaluation parameters of wind forecasting methods are given in detail. The seventh chapter covers the Global Biomass scenario covering various aspects such as biomass, bio-energy, their classifications, potential of biomass, significance of biomass and its benefits. The eight chapter covers the Indian Biomass energy scenario covering off grid and grid connected. It also covers biomass power projects in various states, major barriers and challenges, state wise potential and key projects of biomass and various projects under approval. The ninth chapter covers Global scenario of micro hydro, word wide potential, there advantages and various challenges The tenth chapter Indian scenario of micro hydro covering various aspects such as potential, its advantages, classification of micro hydro plants, year wise growth and various incentives from Government of India. The last chapter of the book is based on a case study of planning of energy for an off grid side using various renewable energy sources available at the site.