Economic and environmental sustainability of solar PV technology using retscreen expert.

This paper focuses on the energy road map for a solar PV project in SRM IST NCR Campus so that the increasing energy demand of the institution is shifted from the grid provided energy to renewable energy source to-be installed in the campus. Since the dependency on conventional power source is very high in the institution and the demands increase as new laboratories workshops and departments are set up it is only time that the institution partakes its responsibility of reducing its carbon footprint, reducing the effect of global warming in the already existing huge industrial area around it making Ghaziabad the second most polluted city in the world, enhance and set an example for sustainable technology development in the area. To achieve this, RETScreen Expert programming is utilized to determine the technical, financial, and natural maintainability of introducing a solar-powered photovoltaic system around there. Several monetary boundaries and climate information from NASA were used for the appraisal. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]