Abstract Ethiopia is among the least developed countries on the globe

with access to electricity being very small. Even if the country is well known to have natural resources supposed to be used for electrification, it is suffering with shortage of electricity with a total access to electricity not exceeding 16% (in 2007).

Especially in the rural part of the country where about 85% of the population is living, access to electricity is less than 2%. Therefore, for the betterment of the living standard of the people and also to wisely use the resources that the country had, it is better to utilize the renewable energy resources the country possesses.

Conti… In this project design of solar powered street lighting

system for five selected sites inside the university will done.

Data important for this study such as the solar resource and load data are collected from meteorological sites like NASA and directly from the university both by measurement and through interview.

The result of this study shows that solar street lighting is a promising solution to the university.

Conti…

The main purposes of this is to determine the technical possibilities and benefits of using Solar Energy through the combination of photovoltaic cells to power streetlights in Adigrat unv.

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BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

Adigrat Unv. is one of the University’s in Ethiopia which conducts various researches to solve community based problems.

The university established in 2004 E.C and is located Northern region of Ethiopia

The number of students and buildings in the campus is growing. Therefore, it is obvious to have proportional resources increment as campus expands in terms of territory and student numbers.  

Conti…

One of these very essential services is solar pv street lighting system b/se of independent of EEPCO i.e off grid system.