Abstract

The world needs renewable energy for the long-term future. One of the most promising renewable energy solar 

PV is ideal for buildings and rooftop. However, the uptake of solar PV in developing countries is rather 

slow. Mostly because it is expensive but also because heavy electrical appliances cannot be operated on small 

scale PV systems. In this paper, we present an approach to operate high powered devices on small-scale PV 

systems. In our approach, we have designed a platform called Smart Energy Switching Platform (SESP). A software 

layer on top of SESP allows the devices to follow a collaborative scheme where high power devices are moved 

to an on-state if enough power is available. With this approach, multiple high powered devices with transients 

can be operated with a smaller PV system. We have evaluated our approach using many simulation scenarios and 

has presented a case study to describe the working of the system.