Keywords:

ENERGY, BUILDING, NIGERIA, ELECTRICAL, ENGINEERING, energy demands, SUPPLY,

INCREASE, energy sources, Power Supply

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...ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING | RESEARCH ARTICLE Energy audit and optimal
power supply for a commercial building in Nigeria Adeyinka Ajao Adewale1*, Aderibigbe
Israel Adekitan1, Ofukowoicho Jeremiah Idoko1, Felix Ayoade Agbetuyi1 and Isaac Adekunle
Samuel1 Abstract: Energy is indispensable to human existence, and its need is on the
increase daily due to technological advancement....

...In recent times, there is sporadic increase in the development of modern buildings, and
these buildings require a cost-effective and sustainable source of energy....

...This energy poverty creates a challenge for the growing population, and as such, it is vital
to ensure that the energy supplied to a building is duly optimized and delivered cost
effectively....

...This research was necessary to minimize the cost of energy in an environment of epileptic
power supply to reduce overreliance on the mains and greenhouse effect caused by
alternative energy sources like diesel generators....

...PUBLIC INTEREST STATEMENT World cities are filled with modern buildings and
skyscrapers with a lot of electrical energy demands....

...Increased energy generation through non-renewable means increases the production of

greenhouse gases that cause global warming, and this makes it vital to ensure that energy is
supplied cheaply to buildings and efficiently optimized particularly in developing countries
where energy is in short supply....

...In this study, the cost implication of combining three alternative sources of supply
(national grid, diesel generator and photovoltaic [PV] system) to power an eightfloor
commercial building in Nigeria is considered using various load-sharing probabilistic
ratios....

...Received: 07 June 2018 Accepted: 07 November 2018 First Published: 12 November 2018
*Corresponding author: Adeyinka Ajao Adewale Electrical & Information Engineering
Department, Covenant University, Nigeria E-mail: ade.adewale@covenantuniversity.edu.ng
Reviewing editor: Qingsong Ai, Wuhan University of Technology, China Additional
information is available at the end of the article Page 1 of 18 Subjects: Power & Energy;
Electrical & Electronic Engineering; Engineering Economics Keywords: energy audit; load
profiling; renewable energy optimization; photovoltaic power system; techno-economic
analysis; building energy demand 1. Introduction Energy is pivotal to nation building and
technological advancement (Uddin, Shamim Iqbal, & Talukdar, 2017, Zhao, Zhang, & Liang,
2013)....

...Electrical energy can be generated from renewable and non-renewable sources, and it is
one of the major sources of energy that can be easily converted from one form to another....
...Technological advancement has stimulated an increase in economic activities and the
standards of living, and this, in turn, increases the demand for energy....

...This calls for the continuous integration of cost-effective and environmental friendly
alternative energy sources in the energy mix....

...Modern buildings incorporate various forms of green energy either in the form of solar
and wind energy sources or by the use of energy-efficient build...