Performance evaluation of 50KWp rooftop solar PV plant

Author

Omkar, K. ; Srikanth, M.V. ; Swaroop, K.P. ; Rama, Rao P. V. V.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Shri Vishnu Eng. Coll. for Women, Bhimavaram, India

fYear

2015

fDate

28-30 May 2015

Firstpage

761

Lastpage

765

Abstract

Performance evaluation is most important aspect to asses the real time behavior of grid-connected solar PV systems. This paper attempts to evaluate the performance of 50KWp Grid-tied Solar PV system located at Shri Vishnu Educational Society, Bhimavaram, India. Performance parameters based on IEC standard-61724 which includes Final Yield (Y_F), Reference Yield (Y_R), Performance Ratio (PR) and Capacity Factors (CF) are evaluated on hourly, daily and monthly bases. Actual energy output to the Point of Common Coupling (PCC) is calculated based on system analysis. Additionally the performance evaluation gives a insight on identifying real time operational issues and allows comparison between different existing plants located at various geographically locations. Results substantially validates the actual performance of the solar PV system in real time conditions.

Keywords

IEC standards; building integrated photovoltaics; Bhimavaram; IEC standard-61724; India; PCC; Shri Vishnu Educational Society; capacity factors; final yield; grid-tied solar PV system; performance evaluation; performance ratio; point of common coupling; power 50 kW; reference yield; rooftop solar PV plant; Arrays; Power generation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industrial Instrumentation and Control (ICIC), 2015 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Pune

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IIC.2015.7150844

Filename

7150844