Comparative study of solar and conventional energies for the continuity of public administrative service at the town hall of Zagnanado in central Benin

Ahonankpon Hubert Frederic GBAGUIDI

essential services, photovoltaic solar energy, continuity of public service, off-grid energy

The continuous functioning of the municipal administration is an indicator of the sustainability of the local public service. But since the reform instituting the prepayment mode of consumption, the disconnection of offices from the public electricity network creates conditions favorable to absenteeism of municipal officials and thus modifies the procedures in force.

Aware of these dysfunctions which, in every respect disadvantage the users of the administration, the present reflection carried out from the case of the town hall of Zagnanado (in the center of Benin) made it possible to determine the demand for energy and therefore, to size a solar generator capable of supplementing the conventional network.

Thus, after having explored the advantages and disadvantages of each of the two off-grid and on-grid technologies, the evaluation of consumption over a 20-year horizon on the one hand and of the investment cost including the renewal of the other hand revealed that this parameter constitutes the main weak point of photovoltaic energy.

https://dx.doi.org/10.31873/IJEAS.10.12.03