Cooperative Isolated Renewable En- ergy Systems (IRES) for Enhancing the Reliability of Power in Rural Areas

Subcategory (under Clean Energy): Smart Grid
Technology Readiness Level (TRL): TRL 8 - First of a kind commercial
Technology Outline (Process Description)

The project is to design, build, and demonstrate a flexible rural off-grid electricity supply system. The supply system is based on solar PV and energy storage. The project aims to develop strategies integrating innovative technologies (components, sub-systems, etc.) at high readiness levels. It will also demonstrate their technical feasibility and cost-effectiveness in diverse social contexts of countries requiring off-grid access to electricity, including India. It is expected to evolve technology and de- velop methodology and business models tuneable to local conditions. The project is to install a 50-kW solar PV system on the rooftop of the Govt. Secondary School, Boorthal. The installed PV system is expected to supply 30 selected houses in the vil- lage with an approximate load of 1 kW load each. Selected houses will get power from developed PV systems and utility grids.

Salient Features/Advantages

  • Benefits of Society:

    • As this technology is being developed for rural areas, the self-dependence on power will increase the efficiency of villagers
    • The funds collected by the cooperative society will help in the further development of the village
    • In the off-grid mode there will be a continuous supply of power in the village, even though the grid power is not available
    • This project will create curiosity among the children of the village to learn more about renewable energy and its benefits
    • For individual homes, the objective is to support significant reduction in price and increase performance of renewable power systems
    • Successful operation of the proposed system entrusts the consumers to get more and more roof to PV installed and creation of local grid without the need for a central utility grid  

  • Research Benefits:

    • It will be a great learning for the researchers to establish the real time project in such a rural area
    • The researchers can execute their research on this project for real time implementation
    • As India is going ahead towards the renewable energy resources for upcoming energy production, this project will set a great model for the upcoming researchers to explore further

Key Outcomes

  • Rural electricity infrastructure with renewable energy resource Microgrids
  • Providing connectivity to off-grid households
  • Adequate supply with desired power quality rates
  • Electricity supply at affordable
  • The system is idealized to demonstrate the operation of a distributed generation without a global reference generation system

IP Protection details

  • Patent filed (Title, national/International): 1. Arun Kumar Verma, Sandeep N, Sangeeta Kumari “Single-Phase Transformer-less Boosting Inverter with Leakage Current Elimina- tion for Photovoltaic Application”, Reg/Ref No.202011050918, filed on 23 December, 2020/national. 2. Draft Ready to file: A mid-point clamped switched-capacitor- based boosting inverter
  • Patents Granted: Nil
  • Copyrights obtained /progress on commercialisation /Pl. specify connect with industry: We worked with Industry IEPT Bangalore for the deployment of the pro- ject. We are still working closely with industries to commercialize a few technologies

Contact details (for more information)

  • Nodal Person name: Dr Arun Kumar Verma
  • Email ID: arun.ee@mnit.ac.in; arun.verma@iitjammu.ac.in
  • Organisation name (Relevant link/web page): MNIT Jaipur/IIT Jammu
Supporting Photographs/Images

Organizations involved in the development (logo/name)

MNIT Jaipur, IIT Delhi, IIT Hyderabad, IIT Jammu, UNSW Canberra Australia

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