Performance of a grid connected residential photovoltaic system with energy storage

Author

Palomino, G. Ernest ; Wiles, John ; Stevens, John ; Goodman, Frank

Author_Institution

SRP, Phoenix, AZ, USA

fYear

1997

fDate

29 Sep-3 Oct 1997

Firstpage

1377

Lastpage

1380

Abstract

In 1995, Salt River Project (SRP), a public power utility located in Phoenix, Arizona, USA, collaborated with the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) and Sandia National Laboratories (Sandia) to initiate a research project to evaluate the feasibility of using a photovoltaic (PV) power system with battery energy storage to match PV output with residential customer peak energy demand periods. The PV power system, a 2.4 kW PV array with 25.2 kWh of energy storage, was designed and installed by the Southwest Technology Development Institute (SWTDI) at an SRP-owned facility, known as the Chandler Research House during August 1995. This paper presents an overview of the system design, operation and performance

Keywords

battery storage plants; economics; load (electric); photovoltaic power systems; power system measurement; project engineering; secondary cells; solar cell arrays; 2.4 kW; 25.2 kWh; PV array; USA; battery energy storage; customer peak energy demand; design; grid connection; operation; performance; research project; residential PV power system; Batteries; Collaboration; Control systems; Energy storage; Inverters; Photovoltaic systems; Power systems; Production systems; Renewable energy resources; Solar power generation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, 1997., Conference Record of the Twenty-Sixth IEEE

Conference_Location

Anaheim, CA

ISSN

0160-8371

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3767-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PVSC.1997.654347

Filename

654347