ASSIGNMENT 2: Electricity Bill Assessment

Siddhi Vashi| PBE22343

BE4601 : Renewable energy systems

MTech Building Energy Performance
Faculty of Technology

City: Surat, Gujarat

Supplier: Torrent Power
Category: RGP - Residential
 Values for one Bill (June 2023) 1. What is the sanctioned electrical
load of your house?

3,360.00 The sanctioned load for a house refers to

the maximum amount of electrical power
that is officially approved by the local
Maintenance
electrical authorities for that specific house.
1646.60 charge
The sanctioned load is determined based
14320 13372 19965 Actual electricity on various factors such as the size of the
3360.92
-13797 -13231 -19647 consumed house, the number of electrical appliances
438.38 and devices it is expected to
523 141 318 1210.94 accommodate, and the wiring and
electrical infrastructure in place.
382 Fuel surcharge/ power purchase adjustment charges
177
Sanctioned Load – 7.46kW
Total Consumption (Import) 523 units
Total Export 141units
2. What is the actual connected load
Net units billed 382 of your house?
Average daily units/Consumption 17.4 The actual connected load is the amount of
Bill Amount Rs. 3360/- power that your electrical installation is
Bill amount in case of 523 units from grid Rs. 4602/- currently drawing from the grid

Table 1 : Electricity bill data for one month

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Calculation for daily consumption and Actual load

The working cumulative hours have been

Rated Watts Total Watts Working Hours Power Energy
Equipment list No of equipments
(W) (W) (hours) (kWh) (Kw) determined using a diversity factor
approach. In this scenario, there are a
Tube lights 7 20 140 4 0.56 0.14
total of three air conditioning units (ACs),
Fan 6 50 300 8 2.4 0.3 out of which two ACs operate for 4 hours
LED bulb 11 10 110 0.5 0.055 0.11 each, while the third AC remains inactive.
Refrigerator As a result, the combined operational
1 180 180 10 1.8 0.18
Air conditioner hours for all three ACs amount to 2.6 hours
3 1200 3600 3 10.8 3.6
Central Geyser 1 2000 2000 1 2 2
Actual load – 7.7kW
Washing Machine
as per manual calculation
1 200 200 1 0.2 0.2
This calculation is done considering maximum
Mixer 1 250 250 0.25 0.0625 0.25
consumption possible of the particular
Microwave
1 800 800 0.2 0.16 0.8 equipment in the given month. However, in
TV 1 100 100 3 0.3 0.1 practicality the actual load would be atleast
Water pump 30% lesser than this amount
1 60 60 1 0.06 0.06
Water Purifier Average daily
2 25 75 4 0.56 0.14
units/Consumption as per bill 17.4 kWh
Total daily electricity consumption (Calculated) 18.3 7.74 for the month of June
Table 2 : Total daily consumption

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 3. What is average daily electricity consumption of 6. What is your annual electricity consumption and
your home? annual electricity cost?
The average daily consumption for the month of June is 17.4 Annual electricity consumption : 3453 kWh
kWh Annual electricity Cost : 30,041 INR
The Annual Average daily consumption is 9.46 kWh per day

7. What is your family’s per capita electricity

4. What is the cost of unit electricity paid by you? consumption?

Charges Monthly Slab Rate Family members – 4

First 50 Units 320 Paisa/unit Annual per capita electricity consumption – 863 kWh
Energy
Next 150 Units 395 Paisa/unit
Charges
Remaining Units 500 Paisa/unit
9.46kWh Annual Daily Avg
Three Phase 65 Rs/month/installation
Consumption

5. What is your per cost for electricity consumed?

The per cost of electricity consumed is the cost at which the 863kWh Per Capita Consumption
final amount is paid.

The cost will be – 8.79 rupees for the month of June

(3360 INR / 382 units)

3453 kWh Annual Consumption

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 8. Tabulate Month-wise / Bill-wise 700
consumption for 12 months and

Electricity consumption (kWh)

present it graphically 600

• The average monthly consumption 500

is approximately 287 kWh per
month. 400
• The consumption in winter months
is quite below the monthly average 300
as the temperature does not
generally go beyond 15°C and 200
there is no need for air heaters
100
• The consumption in monsoon
months is close to the monthly 0
average as there is a lot og Jan Feb March April May June July Aug Sept Oct Nov Dec
humidity in Surat during monsoon
and hence AC consumption is Units Consumed Units Generated
there

• The highest consumption is in May

Annual consumption : 3453 kWh Annual Generation : 3725 kWh
and June owing to summer time
high temperatures and also my Installed Capacity of PV – 3.5kW
vacation and hence, exponential The generation is currently higher than the demand which is because of the calculation of
consumption increase compared requirement on the basis of peak loading conditions in summer time which is 47% higher
to other months than monthly average

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