Performance of a Stand-Alone Photovoltaic System: An energy sharing approach

This paper presented a new energy-sharing approach based on a new concept of "energy for work." The study's benchmark was an average energy consumer having access to a virtual battery bank after a prior completion of assigned task hours, days, weeks, or months earlier. The results of the latter participant might then be scaled up to a household, community, and/or entire nation. The approach utilized external variables, such as 1) real per capita energy consumption, 2) average household size, and 3) total population data (the sample was 80 people). The study also used internal variables, like the amount of energy available in the central battery bank, the number and types of customers — Green, Yellow, and Red — willing to prepay the good, meaning to perform an assigned task before sunset, and finally the types of appliances — High, Medium, and Low priorities. Results demonstrated that the green users enjoyed most their virtual energy shares. Results also revealed socio-economic benefits to all middle and low-income green workers in the United Arab Emirates.