Name of the student : Chaminga H G S

Index No. : 168605E

Program of study : M.Sc in Electrical Installations
Mobile phone number : 071 5172614
E-mail address : sameeracgamage@gmail.com

RESEARCH TITLE
Solar Distributed Generation for Energy Smart High Rise Buildings in Sri Lanka; Modelling & Optimizing
BACKGROUND
The last two decades have brought significant changes to the building design profession. The trend of
constructing high rise building are rapidly spread all over the world as a matter of space concern. Subsequently
the utility grid challenge is to meet the current growing energy demand and more conventional energy means
more emissions and more environmental impacts. Therefore, distributed energy production based on the
renewable energy sources (RES) have vital role. The most promising technology, photovoltaic (PV), offers the
chance to produce that most universal energy, electricity, through a semiconductor process using no moving
parts, no fuel other than sunlight, and creating no pollutants. The development and application of the Building
Integrated Photovoltaic (BIPV) power system in which the conventional building elements, such as roof tiles,
facade elements, and shading devices are replaced by the PV modules [1].

PROBLEM STATEMENT
With continuing growth in construction of high rise building in Sri Lanka, promoting energy efficiency building
concepts are a top priority since energy consumption of same will be on the rise. Key method of energy usage
will be in the form of electricity. Recent past, demand for electricity in local commercial buildings account to
25% -30%. Connecting these increased demand to the utility with conventional energy leading to higher
emission of co2 and bad impact on environment. It is urgently necessary to further develop independent, vital
and sustainable energy systems based on the renewable energy sources as distributed energy schemes.

OBJECTIVES
 To analyze the effectiveness of solar PV integration in to high rise buildings in Sri Lanka
 To develop mathematical model for energy production of photovoltaic system integrated in to building
facades
 To obtain optimum & cost beneficial solution using Homer analysis

METHODOLOGY
The research to be done as a case study using a high rise building located in Colombo, Si Lanka.
 Collecting of equipment and operational data related to the process requirement
 Collecting of data for solar irradiation
 Development of mathematical model for Building Integrated Photovoltaic system with regards to the
chosen high rise building
 Evaluation of the performance of the model and optimizing with Homer analyzer
TIME FRAME
The total scope given above is targeted to be completed within 10 months.

RESOURCES REQUIREMENT

The HOMER Pro® microgrid software by HOMER Energy

REFERANCES

[1] Bangyin Liu, Member, IEEE, Shanxu Duan, and Tao Cai, “Photovoltaic DC-Building-Module-Based BIPV
System—Concept and Design Considerations”, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON POWER ELECTRONICS, VOL.
26, NO. 5, MAY 2011