Using Photo Voltage Solar and Light Emitting Diodes to Reduce Energy Consumption: Case Study in Port Sudan City

Abstract

Port Sudan city is a capital of the Red Sea State in the republic of Sudan in south-eastern Africa. The city has high consumption of power for street lighting. The lighting is needed for 12 h/day. This consumes about 11.5 Mw day. The aim of this paper is study the proposed system to reduce the streetlight power consumption use in Port Sudan City and to explore the renewable energy to work alternative energy sources. The present paper studies the proposed system called (all-in-one) street lighting system consisting of PV panel, lithium ion battery and light sensor with LED lamp, all connected and constructed in single unit. The proposed system is to be used in Port Sudan city to decrease the electricity consumption, especially in summer. The problem has been treated theoretically. The proposed system has been compared with two types of plant the first plant used 250W lamp Ac and the second plant used 100W LED lamp. The results show that the proposed system has low cost, about 80 USD and much better economically. The proposed system can solve the power loss in Port Sudan city, saving 11.5 Mw day for this city and more than 428,000 SUP/day. The results show that the proposed system could be utilized to reduce lighting consumption, save energy and developments on environment. We therefore recommended to uses the proposed system in many countries not only in Port Sudan City.