A technical review on solar-net metering

The electrical infrastructure of India is increasing at a very fast rate, causing overstressed electrical network. This indeed has become the national concern. Hence, a need is emerged to develop a secure and reliable network which can reduce stress on the existing network. Also, it should be able to improve the quality of power supplied to the customers. In context to this, a term Smart Grid (SG) is evolved. SG is incorporated with features like Advance Metering Infrastructure (AMI) and control techniques to achieve adaptability, self-healing and reliability of power systems. However, the AMI is one of the important components of the SG in which bidirectional communication is maintained with the consumer smart meter and utility grid. The paper discusses the net metering(NM) as the world wide used application with the integration of renewable resources. The detailed architecture of net meter has been presented. Moreover, an algorithm is also discussed to present the working of bidirectional meter. In the end, a comparative analysis has been done between the conventional gross metering and the net metering.