Competitiveness Level of Photovoltaic Solar Systems in Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso): Study Based on the Domestic Electric Meters Calibration

Table 1

Solar energy system’s components costs.

Components	Specific price	Sources	Chosen specific price
			FCFA/U	Euro^1/U
Module (FCFA/Wp)	374	Sunny Uplands^2 [31], PHOTON^3	374	0.57
	577	Rigter and Vidican^4 [29]
	1640	Szabó et al. [7]
	3936	Bilal et al. [17]
Battery (FCFA/kWh^5)	69536	Semassou [15]	69536	107.07
	75440	Sunny Uplands [31]
	82000	Szabó et al. [7]
	113707	Bilal et al. [17]
Inverter (FCFA/W)	190	PHOTON	190	0.29
	328	Semassou [15]
	348	Rigter and Vidican^6 [29]
	524	Bilal et al. [17]
Regulator (FCFA/A)	3280	Intigaia^7	3280	5.00
	5051	Bilal et al. [17]

With 1 Euro = 656.576 FCFA as currencies conversion chosen
²Value simulated for the year 2012.
³PHOTON-Newsletter for 2013/01/11 concerning inverters and module price index: http://www.photon.info.
⁴Simulation carried out according to the fall of the module cost for the year 2012.
⁵Cost of AGM lead-acid batteries of nominal voltage of 12 V.
⁶This cost refers to a simulation carried out according to the fall of the price of the inverters for the year 2012.
⁷http://intigaia.free.fr/.