A Model to Improve the Implementation Standards of Street Lighting Based on Solar Energy: A Case Study

Wahyudi Sutopo, Ika Shinta Mardikaningsih, Roni Zakaria and Ahad Ali
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Wahyudi Sutopo: Laboratory of Business and Logistic System, Industrial Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Universitas Sebelas Maret, Ir. Sutami Rd. No. 36A, Surakarta 57126, Indonesia
Ika Shinta Mardikaningsih: Laboratory of Business and Logistic System, Industrial Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Universitas Sebelas Maret, Ir. Sutami Rd. No. 36A, Surakarta 57126, Indonesia
Roni Zakaria: Laboratory of Business and Logistic System, Industrial Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Universitas Sebelas Maret, Ir. Sutami Rd. No. 36A, Surakarta 57126, Indonesia
Ahad Ali: Leon Linton Department of Mechanical Engineering, Lawrence Technological University, Southfield, MI 48075, USA

Energies, 2020, vol. 13, issue 3, 1-20

Abstract: This paper aims to improve the implementation standards of solar-energy-based street lighting in Indonesia. A model framework was developed to assess existing conditions regarding the level of lux, the distance between poles, pole height, and lamp power. According to the evaluation of the existing circumstances, the street lighting system is not satisfactory according to the national standard, with 64.7% black area. An alternative installation of street lighting designed by DIALux application was proposed to fulfill the technical standard of street lighting. The result shows that this alternative design can be used for renewing existing street lighting with better performance and reliability. Economic analysis of all technically feasible alternatives was conducted afterward by benefit–cost analysis. The analysis shows that solar-energy-based street lighting requires as much as 621,473,620.00 Indonesian Rupiah (IDR), with 1.06 benefit–cost ratios and a 9% reduction of total cost. Therefore, the analysis indicates that solar-energy-based technology can be feasibly implemented in a street lighting system. The results show that the proposed model can be applied to improve the implementation standard of solar-energy-based street lighting.

Keywords: economic analysis; national standard; solar-energy-based technology; street lighting (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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