Análise de viabilidade econômica da implantação de um sistema de energia fotovoltaico na Universidade Federal do Ceará

Abstract

Annually, the need for energy to support the socioeconomic development of brazil, whose current scenario, shows constant increases in electricity rates and impacts, including sectors of higher education, grows. In this context, there is a nneed to diversify the generation matrix based on cogeneration systems that take advantage of the climatological richness of this country and, among these, the distributed and integrated photovoltaic energy to the grid presents itself as a good alternative for the improvement of the supply of this an essential input to development. Considering this scenario, this exploratory and quantitative study aims to analyze the economic viability of the implementation of an electric energy compensation system through the installation of photovoltaic panels at the federal university of ceará as an alternative to promote the reduction of costs and the incentive to the research of photovoltaic energy efficiency of this institution to later materialize in an executable model of distributed microgeneration to restructure and optimize the national energy apparatus. In order to analyze this economic feasibility, the analysis methods used were discounted payback, net present value (npv) and internal rate of return (IRR) based on the average life time of the solar panels.