ELECTRICAL ENERGY MONITORING SYSTEM FROM SOLAR PANEL

Abstract

Renewable energy development as an alternative source of power supply has now been discovered and widely used. In fact, most users have begun to install one of the renewable energy known as solar photovoltaic (PV). Solar PV is installed in residential and industrial sectors as the government are considering every possible solution to increase the effectiveness of renewable energy. Solar PV has the feature that the energy stored from the solar energy into the battery will decrease at any time. Therefore, a monitoring system needs to be developed to measure power consumption based on the type of power supply currently being used, whether it be a primary power supply or a solar power supply. In this project, a system to monitor the percentage of energy supplied by solar PV as well as to inform the state of the solar panel via Interface. Information and data collected is obtained by monitoring the current and voltage through sensors installed and stored on a personal computer as well as using the Matlab application. Matlab is used to display data through graphical user interface (GUI) development. User friendly software in terms of organizing and controlling the system is created through the Interface. At the end of this project, this monitoring system will be used and applied mainly in residential and industrial sectors to enable measurement of solar energy performance.