Techno-economical study of solar water pumping system: optimum design, evaluation, and comparison

Solar water pumping systems are fundamental entities for transmission and storage purposes whether it is has been used in irrigation or residential applications. The use of photovoltaic (PV) panels to support the electrical requirements these executed globally a long time. However, introducing optimization sizing techniques such can benefit end-user by saving money, energy, This paper proposed solar optimum design Oman. design, evaluation have carried out through intuitive, numerical methods. Based on hourly meteorological data, simulation both HOMER software method using MATLAB code find design. selected location ambient temperature variance from 12.8 °C 44.5 over year maximum insolation 7.45 kWh/m 2 /day, respectively. results found average energy generated, annual yield factor, capacity factor system 2.9 kWh, 2016.66 kWh/kWp, 22.97%, respectively, 0.81 kW pump, which encouraging compared with similar studied systems. capital cost worth it, other literature. comparison shows be favor around 0.24 USD/kWh. show successful operation performance parameters, along evaluation, proves that PV promising