Meeting current energy demand through renewable energy sources in Goma, North Kivu Community

Abstract

In the case of Goma, despite the several existences nowadays of electricity providers such as “SNEL”, “VIRUNGA Energie”, “SOCODE”, and “NURU Energie” there is a substantial unmet electricity demand as reported in [1] alongside the growing energy demand respectively to the growing population. Therefore, customers plan their activities based on scheduled interruptions and this prevents their business from functioning properly. The region needs a solution to this costly and inappropriate situation. In this backdrop, I believe that green energy sources have the key potential to replace the use of coil, gas, oil as sources to generate power and mitigate the greenhouse effect by reducing the carbon dioxide emission in the atmosphere while generating power. Thus we propose to meet current electricity demand through renewable energy sources in Goma, North Kivu community. An assessment of available renewable energy sources is done and the design and simulation of the proposed solution are achieved using calculation methodology and PVsyst as the simulation tool. Other specific procedures or techniques are used to identify, collect, select, and analyze information: the documentary technic; the interview technic, for data collection; the mathematical tool by using MATLAB. After doing the Goma’s available renewable energy sources assessment, it has been observed that based on its geographical location, the city is located in a very high insolated region with radiation levels ranging between 4.87kWh/m2/day, implementing photovoltaically viable throughout the region. Therefore a PV large-scale system is designed and simulated to meet the current electricity demand determined here. For future worker’s the load forecasting is achieved for the power system planning.