Off-Grid PV System Modelling for Communal Load at Jifak Village-Asmat Regency, Papua Province Based on MATLAB/Simulink

Solar Photovoltaic (PV) systems are popular to be applied as one of the potential renewable energy sources in the world, including Indonesia. This system can produce electricity to reach the least developed area where grid facilities are not available. Jifak Village, Asmat Regency - Papua is one of the least developed area in Indonesia, which is lack of accessibility. This region is not covered by the electricity network yet based on 2018 data because of the limited infrastructure that causes high transportation cost. On the other side, this region has a potential renewable energy source which consistently receives high solar radiation intensity y 4.68 kWh/m² in annual. Therefore, the pure PV system is a potential solution to providing electricity at Jifak Village, Papua. In this research, the objective is designing a pure PV system model, which will be utilized further in Jifak Village, Papua. This developed pure PV system model is featuring PV and converter module, Maximum Power Point Tracker (MPPT) method with applied Incremental Conductance Algorithm, battery module, inverter, dan communal load system. The pure PV system is developed using MATLAB/SIMULINK program, and HOMER Pro program is used to simulating its economy side. As results, the pure PV system is feasible and suitable to be applied in Jifak Village, Papua because it has Renewable Fraction (RF) equal to 100% with a better value of LCOE (IDR 13,557.00) and NPC (IDR 1,265,085,623.00) compared to pure genset system. The results from MATLAB/SIMULINK program, energy output produced by pure PV system can fulfil 100 households in Jifak Village, Papua with 40 kWh as communal load.