Web Application for Calculating Total Roof Top Area and Solar Energy
Aryal, Sagar (2019)
2019
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Solar Energy is one of a growing renewable energy source in the world. Many government organisations and private companies are working on the Renewable Energy Project. Nepal, despite being one of the geographically diverse countries is facing energy crisis. Nepal is not able to produce to the enough electric energy and reach to its potential. On the one hand, people are not using the alternatives and staying in dark. Renewable energy such as solar energy which is provided by the environment for free can overcome this situation. The average sunshine days of Nepal also signifies the potential of solar energy solution that can be used as alternatives to non-renewable energy.
Nepal receives 3.6 to 6.2 KWH of solar radiation per square meter per day, with roughly 300 days of sun a year, making it ideal for solar energy. If we use just 0.01% of the total area of Nepal, we can generate solar electricity at 8GWH/day;; that is 2920 GWH/year. Currently Nepal generated 12 MW from solar PV system. The government is in the process of finalising 20 years renewable energy perspective plan where Solar PV System plays a very important role. For this, the government needs some estimation about how much area is available in an urban area that is applicable to implant the solar PV system. As calculating roof top area of houses in the urban area is not an easy way, I found a solution that will make the process a way easier and less time consuming. My solution is Building a web portal that helps to detect roof area and estimate the "Total Potential Roof Top Solar PV System Capacity" for the largest city, Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal.
The thesis mainly focuses on the development of full stack web application by using common tools and libraries like HTML5, CSS, Bootstrap, JavaScript and jQuery along with its implementation and friendly UI. The thesis describes various algorithms methods and technologies that converts OSM image into area and finally to energy. The thesis includes application architecture, design, testing and application development process that provides guideline for new developers to work with new web projects.
Nepal receives 3.6 to 6.2 KWH of solar radiation per square meter per day, with roughly 300 days of sun a year, making it ideal for solar energy. If we use just 0.01% of the total area of Nepal, we can generate solar electricity at 8GWH/day;; that is 2920 GWH/year. Currently Nepal generated 12 MW from solar PV system. The government is in the process of finalising 20 years renewable energy perspective plan where Solar PV System plays a very important role. For this, the government needs some estimation about how much area is available in an urban area that is applicable to implant the solar PV system. As calculating roof top area of houses in the urban area is not an easy way, I found a solution that will make the process a way easier and less time consuming. My solution is Building a web portal that helps to detect roof area and estimate the "Total Potential Roof Top Solar PV System Capacity" for the largest city, Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal.
The thesis mainly focuses on the development of full stack web application by using common tools and libraries like HTML5, CSS, Bootstrap, JavaScript and jQuery along with its implementation and friendly UI. The thesis describes various algorithms methods and technologies that converts OSM image into area and finally to energy. The thesis includes application architecture, design, testing and application development process that provides guideline for new developers to work with new web projects.