Residential house electrical energy audit case study with ETAP

Abstract

The economic development of a country is often closely linked to its consumption of energy. Although India ranks sixth in the world so far as total energy consumption is concerned, it still needs much more energy to keep pace with its development objectives. The power demand in India will be increased by 80% by the year 2012–2040 and the expected demand in year 2017 would be nearly 300 GW. The government has taken new steps for the development of renewable energy sources and less consideration in conservation of electrical energy in the society. According to the current scenario of the increase in the demand, this work executed to conduct energy audit in a residential house with suitable recommendation through ETAP. The single line diagram of the house with and without recommendation is simulated in ETAP with necessary data collected from the house. There are three recommendations suggested in this paper to the consumer for implementation to reduce the tariff to 50%.