Photovoltaic installations for the electrification of rural southern Mediterranean regions

✍ Scribed by Pietro Menna; Paolo Paoli

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 166 KB
• Volume: 6
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1062-7995
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-159x(1998090)6:5<357::aid-pip231>3.0.co;2-r

✦ Synopsis

A study for supporting large-scale photovoltaic projects in selected regions of the countries of the southern shore of the Mediterranean sea has been carried out. The schemes for the deployment of the photovoltaic installations, as well as the economic and ®nancing issues, depend on the local socio-economic conditions and cannot be generalized from one context to another. An enlarged customer base, while requiring relevant organisational skills, provides economies of scale in procurement, sales and servicing. Despite this, the cost of the electricity produced by photovoltaic singlehome systems remains higher than 1 $ kWh À1 . For the analysis of a photovoltaic plant supporting the local electricity grid powered by diesel groups, a kWh cost of $0 . 6 has been used. The value of the electricity should be compared against its cost to assess the actual viability of a rural electri®cation project.