Application of behind the meter battery storage system integrated with net metering in Indonesia

Abstract

Indonesia’s energy supply system is experiencing a transition towards more sustainable energy generation with an increased amount of Rooftop Solar photovoltaic (PV). However, the daily variability of the solar resource, in addition to intermittent arising from moving cloud cover becomes shading. To enable Net zero energy home and optimize power management for future homes, Behind The Meter (BTM) battery storage as one solution to solve intermittent energy production, so as an improvement the energy saves. The objective of this paper is to analyze the financial metric of rooftop solar PV and Behind The Meter (BTM) battery storage in the rural sector so that the decision to integrate the rooftop solar PV and BTM battery storage can be solution for Net-zero energy home. Solar PV and BTM battery storage framework was designed to supply continuous and uninterrupted power to a typical house in Indonesia. Step by step method for financial simulation and implementation of the rooftop solar PV and BTM battery storage framework was done. System Advisor Model (SAM) is used for economic investigation. The economics of solar PV and BTM battery storage get LCOE real was $ 10.26 cents/kWh and total reduction CO2 around 7116 kg.