Electric buses Wet Food consume a high amount of electricity during the charging process, resulting in a high maximum demand (MD) that leads to high operational cost and emissions.Therefore, the aim was to use solar energy to reduce the MD.The off-grid solar PV plant has been designed and sized based on the MD data of the bus depot.
The results include the number of PV modules; area required to install the PV modules; sizing of the balance of system.For example, about 7350 modules, 1200 flooded deep cycle batteries, 760 kW inverter size, 566 MPPT smart solar charge Biking - Pumps controllers and 23,200 m2 (5.73 acres) area are needed to offset 466.
5 kW of MD.