TS Hasarmani
Dr. RM Holmukhe
Dr. YS Kale
Abstract
Agriculture based micro, small & medium enterprises (MSME) form the backbone of the Indian economy and play pivotal role in growing economy by leap and bounds. Jaggery making is one of the most popular agriculture business enterprises those are tremendously creating job opportunities in rural India. In F.Y 2018-19, India has exported 3, 13,869.84 Mt of jaggery to 168 countries. Though India is supplying more than 80 % of global jaggery demand, most of these jaggery units are located in remote rural areas; lacking of grid infrastructure and going through one of the tough phases, thus actions are required immediately. Therefore, almost all jaggery-making units are fulfilling their energy need by using diesel generators (DG) which are causing immense environmental and noise pollution. Moreover, price of diesel is always rising thereby increasing the overall manufacturing cost. However, India is located in the equatorial sun belt of the earth, thereby receiving tremendous solar energy throughout the year. Therefore, solar energy can be optimally utilized to meet the energy demand of such remotely located rural business units. This research paper is aiming at hybridization of energy resources specifically solar energy technologies with existing energy resources like DG sets for performance improvement of jaggery making units. Research work aims to provide technology up gradation to these conventional DG powered jaggery making units that helps in reducing green house gas (GHG) emission. Moreover, performance analysis of the proposed system is carried out using PVsyst simulation tool.Keywords- Solar PV System, Solar Inverters, Meteonorm, PVsyst, Performance index, Energy improvements, GHG emission, Jaggery Unit, Rural MSME, PMKUSUM