Need to harness photo voltaic power in your condominium and save on month-to-month electrical energy payments? Consultants share 15 elements to contemplate for photo voltaic panel set up.
From Noida to Gurugram and Bengaluru to Kochi, condominium buildings and leases have gotten more and more widespread throughout India. One of many essential issues of those condominium house owners and tenants is how they might affordably and sustainably energy them for an prolonged time frame.
Putting in a photo voltaic system has emerged as the very best funding for studios to cut back month-to-month electrical energy payments, and cater to the rising energy demand in residential areas.
One of many progressive societies, the Palash Co-Operative Housing Society of Pune, stands out amid the concrete highrises within the metropolis. It put in photo voltaic panels with a capability of 66 kW that assist mild all of the widespread areas within the advanced spanning throughout 4 acres.
Equally, a 19-storey-high rise Bhoomi Arkade in Mumbai has put in 40 photo voltaic panels, every with a 12-kW capability, that generate 55-60 items of electrical energy day by day which energy widespread lights, followers, lifts, and water pumping stations. It saves the residents a whopping Rs 2.6 lakh on energy payments yearly.
We sat down with Kiran Vadgama, the chairman of the Palash Society, and Harish Shakar Kate, the secretary of Bhoomi Arkade, to get an understanding of how residents of condominium complexes and leases can harness photo voltaic power to cut back their energy payments.
15 elements to contemplate for photo voltaic panel set up
Kiran opines that if societies harness photo voltaic power then it might be a giant boon for flat purchases and the load on the grid could be very minimal in mega cities like Mumbai, Pune, Bengaluru, Kolkata, Hyderabad, and Delhi.
It might be cost-effective for each particular person flat purchaser and tenant as properly. He factors out that they will accommodate this sort of infrastructure simply.
Kiran and Harish share 15 key factors to contemplate for photo voltaic panel set up for residences and leases:
- Firstly, search for organisations like Tata Energy, Kosher, and Havells who will present technical assist and buyer care companies to information and counsel you on the set up and financing of the panels.
- Conduct shadow evaluation to evaluate how a lot photo voltaic power might be captured in a particular place by checking how objects like bushes and towers have an effect on the photo voltaic setup. It takes about 3 to six months to conduct shadow evaluation. The set up firm comes each week to test the shadow and the daylight being obtained so as to finalise the panel location earlier than the infrastructure set up.
- A household of 5 dwelling in a 2BHK can select to put in 2 kW for 100% dependency on photo voltaic power. It doesn’t require a variety of area and is good for properties with area constraints. It ought to suffice power necessities for utilizing two air conditioners, 5 lights, and followers. The price of photo voltaic panel set up is predicted to be Rs 1 lakh and it takes between 15 to 45 days for set up.
- Often, the lifetime of the photo voltaic panels is 25 years. A majority of the inverters bought in India have a guaranty lifespan of 5 to six years. You’ll have to substitute them a number of occasions which might improve your price capital tremendously. Go for inverters with a substitute guarantee of 10 years so that you just solely substitute it as soon as. Whereas this might price you a further Rs 1 lakh, it’ll prevent on recurring battery substitute prices.
- Chicken droppings hinder the daylight that photo voltaic panels require to generate energy. Due to this fact, you could routinely take away chicken droppings out of your photo voltaic setup. Set up transponders that may transmit the dwell readings to you and present which panel just isn’t producing sufficient electrical energy. Instantly, clear the panel to keep away from malfunctions.
- Relying on the shadow evaluation, you possibly can recuperate the funding prices in 4-6 years from the 12 months of photo voltaic set up. When you get your return on funding, you’ll get free energy.
- Residence house owners or tenants can set up photo voltaic panels on their balconies offered they obtain enough daylight. An individual dwelling on the second ground and twentieth ground will obtain completely different quantities of daylight. In case you have a constructing surrounding your view and there’s no daylight, then it received’t be a viable choice because the effectivity ranges will cut back.
- Take into account the world of protection in your balcony. In case your balcony is 12-feet lengthy, it is possible for you to to put 3-4 panels. You additionally require area to maintain inverters as properly.
- As an condominium proprietor, you possibly can select to put in photo voltaic panels on the terrace of your condominium advanced and the society can not refuse the request, offered there’s a vacant area out there on the rooftop. You’ll be able to transfer the court docket if the society denies your request.
- It’s to be famous that in the event you dwell on, say, the second ground of a 20-storey constructing, the price of bringing the cable (wire) down from the terrace could be monumental. The add-ons might run into a further Rs 1 lakh.
- On this case, you possibly can go for balconies which may minimise the cabling price as the entire system could be drawn to your own home together with the web metre. It’s a viable proposition for condominium house owners and tenants with rental agreements for 10 or 15 years. Tenants can not take away the setup to take it someplace else as a result of it’ll once more contain paperwork and set up prices.
- Let’s assume the month-to-month energy bills to be Rs 2,500 and the price of set up and inverter (with a 10-year guarantee) to be Rs 1.5 lakh. So, for a 15-year contract, the return on funding can be generated solely after 5 years and residents can avail of eight years of free electrical energy offered the inverter lasts for say 13 years. Afterward, the owner will incur the capital price for the brand new inverter.
- Highlighting the challenges on the terrace and balconies, Harish mentions that residents should bear metre and wiring bills that may go as much as Rs 1 lakh. Utilizing balconies couldn’t be very possible if the power technology can be small-scale in comparison with the requirement. Within the case of balconies, there are security dangers from excessive climate occasions like lightning strikes, sturdy winds, and cyclones that may injury the panels.
- Kiran factors out that there’s a variety of paperwork concerned with the involved electrical energy boards. As an illustration, the contract time period with the involved electrical energy supplier and the subsidy. The service supplier and the photo voltaic set up firms will assist do the paperwork however be certain that you make a copy of all of the paperwork.
- He additional asks residents to contemplate the maths on subsequent financial savings. In case your month-to-month energy invoice is Rs 2,500 in a 2BHK, then you’ll recuperate the price of photo voltaic set up in 10 years (assuming rooftop cable wiring bills along with inverter and set up prices totaling Rs 3 lakh). It doesn’t make sense if the month-to-month invoice is Rs 1,000-1,200 and tenants transfer out shortly after.
(Edited by Padmashree Pande; Photograph credit score: Adobe inventory photos, Bhoomi Arkade, and Palash Co-Operative Housing Society)
