Photovoltaic power generation plants have become highly popular in recent years, especially in the last decades with the various financial benefits and government incentives provided to domestic, commercial, agricultural, and industrial applications. Net metering and gross metering are the two methods normally employed by distribution companies to register the energy generated by photovoltaic power plant installers. This paper explores both the ideas of metering, for an industrial scale 100-kW rooftop solar photovoltaic power plant considered for calculations of payback period and return on investments using the popular solar photovoltaic software.

Key Words:Net metering, Gross Metering, Solar Power Generation, PV system.

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1. Canova, L. Giaccone, F. Spertino and M. Tartaglia, "Electrical Impact of Photovoltaic Plant in Distributed Network," 2007 IEEE Industry Applications Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, USA, 2007, pp. 1450-1455, doi: 10.1109/07IAS.2007.223.
2. Thomson and D. G. Infield, "Network Power-Flow Analysis for a High Penetration of Distributed Generation," in IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 1157-1162, Aug. 2007, doi: 10.1109/TPWRS.2007.901290.
3. Rajani, S.V., Pandya, V.J. Simulation and comparison of perturb and observe and incremental conductance MPPT algorithms for solar energy system connected to grid. Sadhana40, 139–153 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12046-014-0312-z
4. M. S. Carvalho P. F. Correia L. A. F. Ferreira (2008), Distributed reactive power generation control for voltage rise mitigation in distribution networks, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems.23, pp. 766-772
5. Sachin Vrajlal Rajani, Vivek J Pandya, Varsha A. Shah (2016), Experimental validation of the ultracapacitor parameters using the method of averaging for photovoltaic applications, Journal of Energy Storage, 5, 120-126.
6. Kumar R. Bhimasingu (2014), Optimal sizing of microgrid for an urban community building in South India using homer, Power Electronics Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES) IEEE International Conference on, pp. 1-6.
7. Kachhiya Kinal, Lokhande Makarand, Patel Mukesh (2011) MATLAB/Simulink Model of Solar PV Module and MPPT Algorithm, National Conference on Recent Trends in Engineering & Technology, B.V.M. Engineering College, V.V. Nagar, Gujarat, India
8. Sachin Vrajlal Rajani, Vivek J Pandya (2016), Experimental verification of the rate of charge improvement using photovoltaic MPPT hardware for the battery and ultracapacitor storage devices, Solar Energy, 139, 142-148.
9. Armstrong S and Hurley W G (2004), Self-regulating maximum power point tracking for solar energy systems Universities Power Engineering Conference, 39th International IEEE, pp. 604–609.
10. Bruendlinger Roland, Benoît Bletterie, Matthias Milde, Henk Oldenkamp (2007), Maximum Power Point Tracking Performance Under Partially Shaded PV Array Conditions, OTTI PV- Symposium, Staffelstein, Germany: pp. 141–144.

Photovoltaic power generation plants have become highly popular in recent years, especially in the last decades with the various financial benefits and government incentives provided to domestic, commercial, agricultural, and industrial applications. Net metering and gross metering are the two methods normally employed by distribution companies to register the energy generated by photovoltaic power plant installers. This paper explores both the ideas of metering, for an industrial scale 100-kW rooftop solar photovoltaic power plant considered for calculations of payback period and return on investments using the popular solar photovoltaic software.

Key Words:Net metering, Gross Metering, Solar Power Generation, PV system.

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1. Canova, L. Giaccone, F. Spertino and M. Tartaglia, "Electrical Impact of Photovoltaic Plant in Distributed Network," 2007 IEEE Industry Applications Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, USA, 2007, pp. 1450-1455, doi: 10.1109/07IAS.2007.223.
2. Thomson and D. G. Infield, "Network Power-Flow Analysis for a High Penetration of Distributed Generation," in IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 1157-1162, Aug. 2007, doi: 10.1109/TPWRS.2007.901290.
3. Rajani, S.V., Pandya, V.J. Simulation and comparison of perturb and observe and incremental conductance MPPT algorithms for solar energy system connected to grid. Sadhana40, 139–153 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12046-014-0312-z
4. M. S. Carvalho P. F. Correia L. A. F. Ferreira (2008), Distributed reactive power generation control for voltage rise mitigation in distribution networks, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems.23, pp. 766-772
5. Sachin Vrajlal Rajani, Vivek J Pandya, Varsha A. Shah (2016), Experimental validation of the ultracapacitor parameters using the method of averaging for photovoltaic applications, Journal of Energy Storage, 5, 120-126.
6. Kumar R. Bhimasingu (2014), Optimal sizing of microgrid for an urban community building in South India using homer, Power Electronics Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES) IEEE International Conference on, pp. 1-6.
7. Kachhiya Kinal, Lokhande Makarand, Patel Mukesh (2011) MATLAB/Simulink Model of Solar PV Module and MPPT Algorithm, National Conference on Recent Trends in Engineering & Technology, B.V.M. Engineering College, V.V. Nagar, Gujarat, India
8. Sachin Vrajlal Rajani, Vivek J Pandya (2016), Experimental verification of the rate of charge improvement using photovoltaic MPPT hardware for the battery and ultracapacitor storage devices, Solar Energy, 139, 142-148.
9. Armstrong S and Hurley W G (2004), Self-regulating maximum power point tracking for solar energy systems Universities Power Engineering Conference, 39th International IEEE, pp. 604–609.
10. Bruendlinger Roland, Benoît Bletterie, Matthias Milde, Henk Oldenkamp (2007), Maximum Power Point Tracking Performance Under Partially Shaded PV Array Conditions, OTTI PV- Symposium, Staffelstein, Germany: pp. 141–144.