Promoting Solar Home System as Renewable Energy System Using Limited Available Resources

Abstract

This paper will discuss the usage of Photo-Voltaic (PV) solar panel as one of the renewable energy sources. And the most important benefit of using a solar panel, is to lower our dependency with fossil fuel, and thereby reducing CO2 emission that has bigger impact to the earth global warming. We measured the efficiency of this Solar Home System (SHS) to about 75%. In which, we focus primarily to household appliance usage, to support electricity for a daily life. The result of this experiment has shown that the investment in solar panel has a Return Of Investment (ROI) of approximately 5 (five) years.