Feasibility of Replacing Traditional Streets Lighting in Al-Bayda City with Solar Cells Technology

The general electricity company of Libya (GECOL) suffers from frequent interruptions in recent years, sometimes reaching a general blackout. This is the result of several factors like increasing of demand, lack of maintenance, the attack on company's infrastructure, political and economical instability in the country. The paper comes within the framework of estimating the demand resulting from the lighting of eight main streets in Al Bayda city as well as the feasibility of covering this demand using stand-alone photovoltaic solar panel technology powered light emitting diodes. The software Matlab/Simulink is used to implement and simulate our studied system. The simulation results will be exposed and discussed.