Home Industry Powered Grid-Connected PV System an Economic Feasibility Study

This paper presents an analysis and feasibility of grid connected PV System for small scale home industry of welding workshop in Kambang Pesisir Selatan, Indonesia. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the feasibility of the on-grid PV system and obtain a comparison of the simulation results between the PV connected and only grid. The optimization results show that a feasible and optimal design configuration is a gid-connected PV system consisting of a Grid, PV system 3.48 kW, and a 5 kW inverter because it has a large intensity of solar radiation, which produces an economical generating system with a COE of Rp. 829/kWh, smaller than the basic cost of electricity provision that has been determined by the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources, which is IDR 1,058/kWh, in accordance with the criteria, the project is feasible to build.

Home Industry Powered Grid-Connected PV System an Economic Feasibility Study

This paper presents an analysis and feasibility of grid connected PV System for small scale home industry of welding workshop in Kambang Pesisir Selatan, Indonesia. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the feasibility of the on-grid PV system and obtain a comparison of the simulation results between the PV connected and only grid. The optimization results show that a feasible and optimal design configuration is a gid-connected PV system consisting of a Grid, PV system 3.48 kW, and a 5 kW inverter because it has a large intensity of solar radiation, which produces an economical generating system with a COE of Rp. 829/kWh, smaller than the basic cost of electricity provision that has been determined by the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources, which is IDR 1,058/kWh, in accordance with the criteria, the project is feasible to build.

The Impact of Disparity in Infrastructure Development on Aceh’s Economic Performance: An Inter-Provincial Analysis

This study provides empirical findings on regional disparity in infrastructural facilities in 23 districts/municipalities of Aceh Province and the impact of the disparity on the economic performance of Aceh Province, specifically on those of economic growth, poverty, and unemployment. The unit of analysis is the district level and the Infrastructure Development Index (IDI) is used as the variable computed by using the multivariate method. Regional disparity is measured by the Coefficient of Variation and the impact of IDI on the province’s economy is analyzed using the econometric model. The analysis shows that infrastructure development disparity exists and that IDI generally affects the economic performance in Aceh Province. Specifically, the results reveal that electricity provision, the number of hotels, and the length of road positively correlate with economic performance. However, the number of Base Transceiver Stations, the number of markets, and the number of banks do not necessarily lead to higher economic performance. The policy implications of the findings are discussed.

Electrifying urban Africa: energy access, city-making and globalisation in Nigeria and Benin

Electricity access has become a crucial issue in global South cities. While demand is growing, conventional grids are failing or insufficient, especially in Africa. Urban dwellers therefore have to develop a wide range of (in)formal infrastructures to meet their daily electricity needs. Building on recent studies on urban electricity in the global South, this paper aims to contribute to the debates on hybrid forms of electricity provision by analysing the diffusion of solar panels and generators in two cities, Ibadan in Nigeria and Cotonou in Benin. Although neighbouring and relatively similar, these two cities illustrate distinct daily electrical lives. In Nigeria, an electricity-exporting country, people face daily power outages. In Benin, a country that depends on Nigeria for its supply, there is electricity but it is difficult to connect to the grid because of connection costs. Based on an empirical study, the article shows that Ibadan’s inhabitants use generators as a complement to a conventional grid that is almost universal but unreliable. In Cotonou, solar energy is an alternative until they can connect to the grid. Generators and solar panels have become the material markers of urban Africa, providing information on inequalities in access to electricity.

The Asian Anthropocene: Electricity and Fossil Developmentalism

Much scholarship extrapolates global narratives of the Anthropocene from the “fossil capitalism” of European imperial powers. This analysis deploys the alternative lens of grid electricity—the great macro-technology of the twentieth century—to reevaluate the dynamics of the Anthropocene outside the Anglozone. Histories of Asian electrification refute the notion of any simple relationship between colonialism and fossil capitalism. Instead, they point towards a postcolonial trend of fossil developmentalism. Especially in the context of late development, energy expansion became a state-led moral project. Cutting against fossil capitalism's logic of commodification, electricity provision was increasingly conceptualized as a national good and an entitlement, even if one honored in the breach. This trend transcended the distinction between market and planned economies, and extended beyond formal democracies. The (partial) democratization of consumption brought by fossil developmentalism is the hallmark of the “Great Acceleration” in human impacts on the environment since 1950.