Abstract
Abstract System simulation is necessary to investigate the feasibility of Solar PV system at a given location. This study is done to evaluate the feasibility of grid connected rooftop solar photovoltaic system for a residential Hostel building at MANIT, Bhopal, India (Latitude: 23° 16′ N, Longitude: 77° 36′ E). The study focuses on the use of Solargis PV Planner software as a tool to analyze the performance a 110 kW p solar photovoltaic rooftop plant and also compares the performances of different PV technologies based on simulated energy yield and performance ratio. Solargis proves to easy, fast, accurate and reliable software tool for the simulation of solar PV system.
Highlights
Renewable energy sources are considered as alternative energy sources due to environmental pollution, global warming and depletion of ozone layer caused by green house effect
The electrical and thermal simulation of a roofmounted BIPV system inclined at Ballymena, Northern Ireland and facing due south was performed by using TRNSYS (Mondol et al, 2005)
The performance of each PV system is depicted by its energy yield and performance ratio (PR) that are defined in (1) and (2) respectively
Summary
Renewable energy sources are considered as alternative energy sources due to environmental pollution, global warming and depletion of ozone layer caused by green house effect. The simulation program SOLCEL was developed to calculate the shading effect on the solar cells, PV module temperature, incident solar irradiance, BIPV output. Grid-connected rooftop solar PV power systems generate DC power direct from the sun’s intercepted solar energy through solar PV modules. Modeling of a yield simulation requires a large quantity of input data like solar irradiation, local weather conditions and other technical parameters of the planned PV systems (Huld et al, 2008). A preliminary indication of the energy yield can be carried out using solar resource data and estimates of plant losses based on nominal values seen in existing projects (Huld et al, 2008). To perform simulation of 110 kWp grid connected rooftop solar power plant using solargis PV Planner software. To provide a baseline information for energy and economic assessment of the PV generated electricity
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