Photovoltaics demonstration projects

Author

Ping, Choi Mong ; Tan, Andrew

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Ngee Ann Polytech., Singapore

Volume

2

fYear

1998

Firstpage

637

Abstract

Among the many types of renewable energies, solar energy is considered promising as it is comparatively more evenly distributed geographically. A branch of solar energy research that has received worldwide attention is photovoltaics (PV). This paper studies the PV demonstration projects carried out in few countries. It aims to identify the common experience and conclusions drawn from the demonstration projects such as PV power system performance, PV cost effectiveness and grid interfacing problems. This paper also examines demonstration projects´ achievements and limitations. The capacity of the projects analysed is limited to 20 kW per installation

Keywords

photovoltaic power systems; power system interconnection; project engineering; solar cell arrays; solar power; solar power stations; 20 kW; PV power system; cost effectiveness; demonstration projects; grid interfacing; power system performance; renewable energies; solar energy research; Costs; Fossil fuels; Gases; Global warming; Inverters; Large-scale systems; Photovoltaic cells; Power generation; Solar energy; System performance;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Energy Management and Power Delivery, 1998. Proceedings of EMPD '98. 1998 International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4495-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EMPD.1998.702763

Filename

702763