A practical optimization method for designing large PV plants

Author

Kerekes, T. ; Koutroulis, E. ; Eyigün, S. ; Teodorescu, R. ; Katsanevakis, M. ; Sera, D.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Energy Technol., Aalborg Univ., Aalborg, Denmark

fYear

2011

fDate

27-30 June 2011

Firstpage

2051

Lastpage

2056

Abstract

Nowadays Photovoltaic (PV) plants have multi MW sizes, the biggest plants reaching tens of MW of capacity. Such large-scale PV plants are made up of several thousands of PV panels, each panel being in the range of 150-350W. This means that the design of a Large PV power plant is a big challenge and configuring such a plant should be implemented taking into consideration not only the cost of the installation, but also the Annual Energy Production, the Performance Ratio and the Levelized Cost Of Energy. In this paper, an algorithm is presented including the most important models of the PV system, that optimizes the structure of the plant based on predefined targets, such as the minimum Levelized Cost Of Energy.

Keywords

optimisation; photovoltaic power systems; power markets; power system economics; PV power plants; levelized energy cost; optimization; performance ratio; photovoltaic plants; power 150 MW to 350 MW; Algorithm design and analysis; Arrays; Inverters; Maintenance engineering; Optimization; Power generation; Production;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industrial Electronics (ISIE), 2011 IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Gdansk

ISSN

Pending

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-9310-4

Electronic_ISBN

Pending

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISIE.2011.5984476

Filename

5984476