Demystifying Renewable Energy Systems - The Reasons Behind The Many Failure Stories
From Odusina Adewale Hiworks Services Limited
There is this general poor perception of the performance of renewable energy products; such general perception of the public and even from Engineers that should advocate for these systems that:
1. Our country is not set for such emerging technology
2. The manufacturers have not mastered the technology
3. The failure rate is too high from previous deployment
4. The systems are too expensive ........and such like
Truely, you may not look too far to find a failed solar street light within 6months of deployment but was promised to light at least for 3 years before batteries are changed while other items like the solar panel and light fitting do 10-30years. Noting also that this were done at POLITICIANS' PRICES which could be 3-5 times the cost of ORIGINAL PRODUCTS.
This shall be Talk for another day.
Also, from individuals and office deployment, there had been a lot of failure stories leading to the BAD AIR around INSTALLING this products and Challenges in the embrace of the products as the way to go in managing our energy crisis.
The truth however,is that, we have so many tremendous success stories of deployment in our country both for domestic and commercial use.
Most of all the banks in our nation have depended on inverter system for over 10years with quality local support for maintenance. In the same light, our telecoms industries have also relied on renewable energy product from reliable sources and reliable technical support like Hiworks to sustain their systems year after year.
Even Government having learnt their lessons from poorly planned and awarded failed deployment, are now recording tremendous success stories in schools and offices deployment that are even remotely monitored by local capacity.
All that is needed is the right planning, right materials, right pricing and right locally trained installers and maintenance arrangement.
1-PLANNING
With right planning, the Return on Investment will be attractive enough for any fresh prospect.
A big house does not mean a big solar-inverter system. The system must be planned with particular load profile.
A home where everybody leaves at 6:30am and return to at 6:30pm from Monday to Friday will not need the same system as one where the Woman of the house and the helps do more from the home front.
It won't be the same deployment for retired granny's or for offices that opens every morning and closes in the evening among many other consideration like various appliances time of duration of use per day.
Office light may be off and on at different times in view of the availability of day light. Printers,laptops, shredded etc will also be used on demand. For home deployment ACs, fridge and freezer will go on and off maybe every 5mins, Tv or video duration may defer for different rooms or homes. Fan use per room may defer etc
All the above is considerered in the profiling of prospective customer's energy need for renewable power support.
2. STRENGTH OF MATERIALS
Where the system have also failed woefully is in matching the particular system with the environment.
Equipment are designed for different level of environmental condition or harzard.
Always look out for the IP rating. When the IP is 20 or indicated as IP20 it implies you can not install outdoor, or in any place where humidity is high. It could be that certain material used to reduce the cost of production can not tolerate high humidity.
It implies that for streetlight to succeed all the material content must have an IP rating of 44 or 55 or 58 or 65 or 68 depending on the level of tolerance that shall be required after observation or by geographical recommendation.
This same rule will apply for home and office deployment.
3. RIGHT OR FAIR PRICING
An inverter of certain capacity may cost twice or 3 times more when comparing from different manufacturers and the reason may be in view of items 1&2 above.
There must be a match of load profiling, strength of materials for the particular environment and fair pricing. Everyone can go Online to compare price and negotiate quality products.
INTERNET SAVVY IS A NECESSITY.
4.RIGHT TECHNICAL SUPPORT
You may have everything right, may be ship your products from the US or Germany, but with unqualified technical support, you may have undesirable result.
Hiworks and their technical partners can deliver to the promise when given the opportunity. Send us a mail at hiworksprocurement@gmail.com.
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