DISTRIBUTED POWER GENERATION

G.SOWMIYA,
S.JEEVA,
EEE – II year,
AVS COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY,
SALEM.
DISTRIBUTED POWER GENERATION
CENTRALIZED DE-CENTRALIZED
Scale of large-scale, typically several MW to Small-scale, up to 10
generation GW to 100s of kW
Load –source Usually far, hundreds of km Near or at the
distance consumer site
Means of Transmission & Distribution network No T&D network
delivery (with step-up & step-down (micro-grid)
transformers , switchgear at sub
stations – macro-grid)
examples Conventional Thermal Power, Hydro Solar PV, Wind,
Power, Nuclear Power Small Hydro,
Biomass
DISTRIBUTED POWER GENERATION
CENTRALIZED DISTRIBUTED
Ownership Big companies, The Government Homes, Communities …

Users of Mainly Industrial, then Commercial, Mainly Residential, and

Power and Residential commercial
Is Distributed Generation a new ?
• Distributed generation (DG) is not new, and has been
there for very long
• Distributed generation is also called Decentralized
Generation
• They have been used as Captive Diesel Power Plants,
and Peak Power Plants, back-up power plants.
• back-up & peaking capacity of the a large industrial
nation like US is about 20%
DG: Non-renewable & renewable
Can we go on like this?
More than 65% of worlds electricity comes from polluting Thermal Power
Plants
What are the effects of CO2 emission?
What is the carbon footprint of nations?
What is the world going to do to stop Global Warming?
India’s focus DG technologies for Green Energy

• Solar PV
• Wind Power
Why is Solar priority for India?

India’s has the best conditions in the

world for generation solar electricity:
• Latitudes 8° and 38°, have high sunshine
for at least 4 hours a day.
• 10 months of good sunshine in a year
India Energy Mix 2018 (GW)
Thermal >65%
RE 20 -25%
Hydro < 20%
India’s Solar progress
• A dedicated Ministry MNRE (Ministry of New and Renewable Energy) for
green energy.
• Policy changes like subsidies and RPO (Renewable Purchase Obligation) in the
last 5 years have brought once costly solar to grid-parity with conventional
power. In 2017, the price/ unit of solar was lower than thermal.
• Projects of utility –scale (solar parks 500MW) have successfully completed
• small-scale (rooftop solar) is lagging due to non-availablity of loans for
individuals.
• Tamilnadu Government is pushing for the use of solar pumps in agriculture by
providing subsidy of up to 90% which accounts for 20% of the State’s power
consumption.
• As of 2018, GST has been levied on Solar panel imports (imports were more
than 90%), to encourage “Make in India” scheme.
• Many banks are coming forward to invest in Solar India –eg. Japan’s Soft Bank
Future of Distributed Generation
Thank you