Solar Planning Project

By Group 11
P202A018 Gesu Madan
P202A019 Girish Venkatraman
P202A037 Pavan Soneji
P202A058 Sriram S

Solar Planning Project

Submitted to Prof S.K. Palhan
By Group 11
P202A018 Gesu Madan
P202A019 Girish Venkatraman
P202A037 Pavan Soneji
P202A058 Sriram S

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Contents

Serial Page
Content
Number Number

1. Executive Summary 2

2. Logic Diagram 2

3. Time Estimates 3

4. Cost Estimates 4

5. Periodic Cost Structure 6

6. Holidays and Working Hours 6

7. Dates for Client Visit 6

8. Loading of Resources 7

9. Probability Distribution 8

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Executive Summary
The project document describes the project management process for setting up a 1MW Solar power
station. There are 20 tasks specified which have been scheduled keeping in mind precedence
requirements. The total budget for the project is 500 Lakhs and the project needs to be delivered
within 4 months.
The land for the project has been acquired and the funding is available for use. The document contains
the scheduling process, the workforce required and the costing for the components as a whole.
The working shift has been defined as 9 hours per day for 6 days a week. Sundays are regular week
offs and additionally. Republic Day, Holi and Labour Day have been assigned as national holidays.
The project requires a total workforce of 90 employees divided into categories of Labour, Engineer
and Admin. Each category’s costing has been shown separately.
The project guide also highlights dates where the client would be called on-site to examine the
progress of work done. The dates have been chosen such that there would be parallel tasks running
and significant portion of work would be completed. The periodic fund requirement has been detailed
and shown as well. Further, using probability distribution, the confidence of the number of days
quoted is given as well.

Logic Diagram

Time Estimates
The tasks have been scheduled into 3 phases:

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 1) Phase 1: Physical tasks and ground work
2) Phase 2: Electrical tasks and fittings
3) Phase 3: Administrative tasks
Using the above logic, the tasks have been scheduled with precedence as follows:

Sl. No Task Name Precedence

1 Fencing -
2 Levelling of land 1
3 Water supply - Bore wells 2
4 Trench for cable laying 2,3
5 Lightning protection units (LPU) 2,4
6 Construction of control room 5
7 Cable laying to inverter area 6
8 Inverter installation 7
9 Earthing 8
10 Boundary lighting 7,8
11 Civil work for module mounting structure 2
12 Structure Assembly 11
13 PV Module assembly 8
14 Module wiring and earthing 13
15 Junction box mounting 8
16 Junction box wiring and earthing 15
17 Low voltage station installation 13
18 Main combiner box installation 17
19 Central monitoring system 10
20 HT Panel & metering panel - Evacuation facility 18

Sl No Task Name Time (days) (p) Time (days) (o) Time (days) (m)
1 Fencing 15 12 14
2 Levelling of land 16 14 15
3 Water supply - Bore wells 15 14 15
4 Trench for cable laying 10 9 10
5 Lightning protection units (LPU) 12 11 12
6 Construction of control room 10 10 10
7 Cable laying to inverter area 5 5 5
8 Inverter installation 5 5 5
9 Earthing 6 6 6
10 Boundary lighting 6 5 6
11 Civil work for module mounting structure 10 10 10
12 Structure Assembly 9 8 9
13 PV Module assembly 8 8 8
14 Module wiring and earthing 4 4 4
15 Junction box mounting 3 2 3
16 Junction box wiring and earthing 1 1 1
17 Low voltage station installation 5 5 5
18 Main combiner box installation 1 1 1
19 Central monitoring system 5 5 5
20 HT Panel & metering panel - Evacuation facility 12 8 10

3 estimates have been calculated using a pessimistic (p), optimistic (o) and most likely (m) approach.
The PERT would be made using the most likely approach. The tasks in red are the critical path.

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Additionally, the estimated time (te) has been calculated using the below formula. This will be used
later to establish the confidence level while quoting the days for the project.
Estimated Time (te) formula:
(p+4m+o)

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Sl. No Task Name Estimated time (days) (te)
1 Fencing 14
2 Levelling of land 15
3 Water supply - Bore wells 15
4 Trench for cable laying 10
5 Lightning protection units (LPU) 12
6 Construction of control room 10
7 Cable laying to inverter area 5
8 Inverter installation 5
9 Earthing 6
10 Boundary lighting 6
11 Civil work for module mounting structure 10
12 Structure Assembly 9
13 PV Module assembly 8
14 Module wiring and earthing 4
15 Junction box mounting 3
16 Junction box wiring and earthing 1
17 Low voltage station installation 5
18 Main combiner box installation 1
19 Central monitoring system 5
20 HT Panel & metering panel - Evacuation facility 10

Cost Estimates
The costs have been divided into 3 broad headings:
1) Workforce Cost
2) Material Cost
3) Equipment Cost

Workforce Cost:
To determine this, we have segregated the workforce into 3 components, labourers, engineers and
admin staff. The costs for each have been mentioned along with the days required for each task. For
simplicity, we are considering that a task will be done by only one group of workforces.

Material & Equipment Cost:

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The material cost is assumed based on industry levels and adjusting for the 1MW project. The
equipment cost is considered as the renting cost for the heavy machinery and other construction
equipment.
Sl No Task Name Employees Required Man Power (in Lakhs) Equipment Cost (in Lakhs) Material Cost (in Lakhs) Total Cost
1 Fencing 10 0.47 0.25 2.50 3.22
2 Levelling of land 5 0.26 5.00 0.50 5.76
3 Water supply - Bore wells 5 0.25 5.00 5.00 10.25
4 Trench for cable laying 5 0.17 2.50 3.00 5.67
5 Lightning protection units (LPU) 7 0.28 5.00 10.00 15.28
6 Construction of control room 8 0.28 5.00 30.00 35.28
7 Cable laying to inverter area 2 0.04 2.00 2.00 4.04
8 Inverter installation 2 0.06 2.00 10.00 12.06
9 Earthing 5 0.18 8.00 20.00 28.18
10 Boundary lighting 8 0.26 5.00 15.00 20.26
11 Civil work for module mounting structure 11 0.66 4.00 6.00 10.66
12 Structure Assembly 5 0.26 2.00 8.00 10.26
13 PV Module assembly 3 0.14 20.00 80.00 100.14
14 Module wiring and earthing 1 0.02 5.00 15.00 20.02
15 Junction box mounting 1 0.02 5.00 15.00 20.02
16 Junction box wiring and earthing 1 0.01 8.00 20.00 28.01
17 Low voltage station installation 5 0.15 10.00 12.00 22.15
18 Main combiner box installation 1 0.01 5.00 15.00 20.01
19 Central monitoring system 3 0.10 5.00 29.00 34.10
20 HT Panel & metering panel - Evacuation facility 2 0.14 5.00 18.00 23.14
Total Days 90 3.75 428.50

The total Manpower, Equipment and Material Cost is 428.50 lakhs as shown in the table above. The
percentage breakup of the cost is shown in the table below and segregated as per 3 activities
mentioned in the report.

PV Module assembly 23%

Fencing 0.75%
Levelling of land 1.34%
Water supply - Bore wells 2.39%
Physical tasks
Trench for cable laying 1.32%
and ground work
Lightning protection units (LPU) 3.57%
Construction of control room 8.23%
Cable laying to inverter area 0.94% 19%
Inverter installation 2.81%
Earthing 6.58%
Boundary lighting 4.73%
Civil work for module mounting structure 2.49%
Electrical tasks Structure Assembly 2.39%
and fitti ngs Module wiring and earthing 4.67%
Junction box mounting 4.67%
Junction box wiring and earthing 6.54%
Low voltage station installation 5.17%
Main combiner box installation 4.67% 45%
Administrative Central monitoring system 7.96%
tasks HT Panel & metering panel - Evacuation facility 5.40% 13%
Total 100%

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Periodic Cost Structure:
The periodic cost has been made considering that daily workforce cost would be constant for each
task till it is finished. Material and Equipment has been broken up as either procured on the first day
or on the second day.

Task Name 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Total Budget

Fencing 0.29 2.54 0.04 0.04 0.04 0.04 0.04 0.04 0.04 0.04 0.04 0.04 0.04 0.04 3.22
Levelling of land 5.52 0.02 0.02 0.02 0.02 0.02 0.02 0.02 0.02 0.02 0.02 0.02 0.02 0.02 0.02 5.76
Water supply - Bore wells 5.02 0.02 5.02 0.02 0.02 0.02 0.02 0.02 0.02 0.02 0.02 0.02 0.02 0.02 0.02 10.25
Trench for cable laying 5.52 0.02 0.02 0.02 0.02 0.02 0.02 0.02 0.02 0.02 5.67
Lightning protection units (LPU) 5.02 10.02 0.02 0.02 0.02 0.02 0.02 0.02 0.02 0.02 0.02 0.02 15.28
Construction of control room 30.03 5.03 0.03 0.03 0.03 0.03 0.03 0.03 0.03 0.03 35.28
Cable laying to inverter area 4.01 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.01 4.04
Inverter installation 2.01 10.01 0.01 0.01 0.01 12.06
Earthing 28.03 0.03 0.03 0.03 0.03 0.03 28.18
Boundary lighting 20.05 0.05 0.05 0.05 0.05 0.05 20.26
Civil work for module mounting structure 10.07 0.07 0.07 0.07 0.07 0.07 0.07 0.07 0.07 0.07 10.66
Structure Assembly 8.03 2.03 0.03 0.03 0.03 0.03 0.03 0.03 0.03 10.26
PV Module assembly 80.02 20.02 0.02 0.02 0.02 0.02 0.02 0.02 100.14
Module wiring and earthing 20.01 0.01 0.01 0.01 20.02
Junction box mounting 15.01 5.01 0.01 20.02
Junction box wiring and earthing 28.01 28.01
Low voltage station installation 22.03 0.03 0.03 0.03 0.03 22.15
Main combiner box installation 20.01 20.01
Central monitoring system 5.02 29.02 0.02 0.02 0.02 34.10
HT Panel & metering panel - Evacuation facility 5.01 18.01 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.01 23.14

Holidays & Working Hours:

Holidays
26-Jan-21 Republic Day
29-Mar-21 Holi
01-May-21 Labour Day

Working Schedule
Number of Working Days in a Week 6
Number of Working Hours in a Day 9

Dates for Client visit:

Onsite visit
25-Mar-21 End of Phase 1
21-Apr-21 End of Phase 2
05-May-21 End of Phase 3

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Loading of Resources:
As we have classified the workforce into 3 groups (Labours, Engineer and Admin) the resource
allocation graphs have been presented as follows:
Labour:

Engineer:

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Admin:

Probability Distribution:
The critical path for the most-likely scenario is 85 days. Hence, we would be quoting this amount to
the client. The calculated te critical path is 83 days. The project standard deviation is 1.67.
The calculated z-value is 1.20. Which is less than the z-values at 90%,95%,99% and hence we can say
with the respective confidence values that the project will be completed within the stipulated time.

z=x-xbar/sigma

confidence interval z- value xbar(te) sigma x

90% 1.65 85 1.67 88
95% 1.96 88
99% 2.58     89

Therefore, the days quoted to the customer at different confidence intervals are:
90% 88 days  
95% 88 days  
99% 89 days      

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Probability Distribution
Z=x–x
Quoted: sigm a
90% confidence : 88 days
95% confidence : 88 days
99% confidence : 89 days

90%

95%
99%

85 88 88 89