Name: Piolo Julius G.

Cabagnot Date Submitted: June 15, 2020

Course & Year: BSME – III Offering No.: Z189
MEng 141.3 – Energy Engineering & Management
Insight Paper for Lecture-Series 6

Throughout the years, electricity has been critical to people's everyday lives, social and
economic growth. Power systems are often made up of four components that correlate to the four
major issues: generation, transmission, voltage transformation, and consumption. It is difficult to
build transmission and distribution systems for such a modest demand of power in certain isolated
places, such as islands, villages, and farms. Grid extension is being utilized across the world to
fulfill the demand for rural power and it is not viable because of the additional expense of
extending power cables to remote communities, because installation and cost of commissioning
are closely related to a variety of constraints such as expected load size, utilities to be used ,land
location, and distance from the main grid. As a consequence, implementing technoeconomic
techniques for rural electrification becomes difficult.

It is difficult to provide adequate energy to remote or remote sections of a country. It is

determined by various elements, including the distances from the national grid, harsh
environments and severe weather conditions, and challenges experienced on the way to the
destination due to uneven terrains. The selection of a specific technology or method for energy
production or a combination of technologies for electrification in rural areas is primarily dictated
by the designated location, its area or the environment itself, the population, manufacturing
businesses, learning centers, medical clinics, resource availability, and so on. Diesel generators,
batteries, LPG, biomass mechanisms, and grid expansion are commonly explored for rural
electrification. A country's social and financial progress is largely dependent on rural
electrification, because an insufficiency of electrical power in a rural region may reduce the quality
of education and also may worsen poverty, both of which have a substantial impact on the social
environment. Energy is a critical component in the age of modernity and economic progress. Its
demand is gradually growing as the world's population grows and living standards rise. The
fundamental problem today is to fulfill rising energy demand without depleting resources for future
generations to consume. The earth's climate has altered in the previous decade, and
environmentalists and experts have engaged in heated disputes on global warming. The key
major causes being pointed are global population expansion and fast industrialization, which
resulted in increasing electrical consumption, which was satisfied by traditional energy sources
such as coal, oil, and gas. The usage of these traditional energy sources adds to a rise in
greenhouse gas emissions, which endangers our environment. Renewable energy is being
viewed as an alternative to traditional sources since it is clean and environmentally friendly, and
hence may assist to reduce GHG emissions. Therefore, several authorities are promoting
renewable energy resources such as solar, wind, biomass, tidal waves, and so on as feasible
alternatives to traditional fossil fuels.

As a response of the aforementioned issues with rural development in terms of electricity

via grid, an enticing option would be the renewable energy system, and also renewable energy is
being supported internationally due to continually expanding energy demand and the depletion of
traditional energy resources.