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Grid-Connected System: Simulation parameters

Project :

San Isidro

Geographical Site

San Isidro
Latitude
Legal Time
Albedo

Situation
Time defined as

Country
15.3oN
Time zone UT+9
0.20

Meteo data :

San Isidro, Synthetic Hourly data

Simulation variant :

San Isidro
Simulation date

Longitude
Altitude

Philippines
120.9oE
50 m

30/09/14 14h43

Simulation parameters
Collector Plane Orientation

Tilt

Horizon

Free Horizon

Near Shadings

No Shadings

14 deg

Azimuth

0 deg

PV Array Characteristics
Si-poly
Model
Manufacturer
Number of PV modules
In series
Total number of PV modules
Nb. modules
Array global power
Nominal (STC)
Array operating characteristics (50oC)
U mpp
Total area
Module area

7NAC000-06A 255W
GES
13 modules
In parallel
19604
Unit Nom. Power
At operating cond.
4999 kWp
369 V
I mpp
31893 m2

Model
Manufacturer
Operating Voltage
Number of Inverter

PowerGate Plus PVS-500

Satcon
320-600 V
Unit Nom. Power
10 units
Total Power

PV module

Inverter
Characteristics
Inverter pack

1508 strings
255 Wp
4561 kWp (50oC)
12366 A

500 kW AC
5000 kW AC

PV Array loss factors

Thermal Loss factor
Uc (const) 20.0 W/m2K
Uv (wind)
=> Nominal Oper. Coll. Temp. (G=800 W/m2, Tamb=20oC, Wind velocity = 1m/s.)NOCT

0.0 W/m2K / m/s

56 oC

Wiring Ohmic Loss

Global array res.
Module Quality Loss
Module Mismatch Losses
Incidence effect, ASHRAE parametrization
IAM =

1.5 % at STC
3.0 %
2.0 % at MPP
0.05

User's needs :

Unlimited load (grid)

0.50 mOhm

1 - bo (1/cos i - 1)

Loss Fraction
Loss Fraction
Loss Fraction
bo Parameter

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Grid-Connected System: Main results

Project :

San Isidro

Simulation variant :

San Isidro
System type
tilt
Model
Nb. of modules
Model
Nb. of units
Unlimited load (grid)

Main system parameters

PV Field Orientation
PV modules
PV Array
Inverter
Inverter pack
User's needs
Main simulation results
System Production

Produced Energy
Performance Ratio PR

Grid-Connected
14 deg
azimuth
7NAC000-06A 255W
Pnom
19604
Pnom total
PowerGate Plus PVS-500 Pnom
10.0
Pnom total

6897 MWh/year
75.0 %

Specific prod.

Normalized productions (per installed kWp): Nominal power 4999 kWp

1380 kWh/kWp/year

Performance Ratio PR

0.8
Lc : Collection Loss (PV-array losses)
1.08 kWh/kWp/day
Ls : System Loss (inverter, ...)
0.18 kWh/kWp/day
Yf : Produced useful energy (inverter output) 3.78 kWh/kWp/day

0 deg
255 Wp
4999 kWp
500 kW ac
5000 kW ac

PR : Performance Ratio (Yf / Yr) : 0.750

0.7

Performance Ratio PR

Normalized Energy [kWh/kWp/day]

0.6
5

0.5

0.4

0.3

2
0.2
1

0.1

Jan

Feb

Mar

Apr

May

Jun

Jul

Aug

Sep

Oct

Nov

0.0

Dec

Jan

Feb

Mar

Apr

May

Jun

Jul

Aug

Sep

Oct

San Isidro
Balances and main results
GlobHor

T Amb

GlobInc

GlobEff

EArray

E_Grid

EffArrR

EffSysR

kWh/m2

oC

kWh/m2

kWh/m2

kWh

kWh

January

144.2

24.00

162.9

158.1

642648

616237

12.37

11.86

February

145.9

24.80

158.2

153.6

618659

592761

12.26

11.75

March

183.2

25.90

189.5

184.0

741068

709688

12.26

11.74

April

186.0

26.90

182.5

177.1

712387

682506

12.24

11.73

May

170.8

26.70

162.4

157.0

637063

608674

12.30

11.75

June

151.2

26.00

141.6

136.6

556049

529127

12.31

11.72

July

144.8

25.80

137.7

132.7

542182

515011

12.35

11.73

August

126.5

25.70

122.5

118.2

480482

452941

12.30

11.60

September

132.3

25.60

133.1

128.7

525704

499297

12.38

11.76

October

142.0

25.50

150.4

145.6

591050

564260

12.32

11.76

November

133.5

25.00

147.8

143.2

579034

553164

12.29

11.74

December

133.6

24.20

151.6

146.8

598829

573093

12.39

11.85

Year

1793.9

25.51

1840.2

1781.6

7225156

6896757

12.31

11.75

Legends:

GlobHor

Horizontal global irradiation

EArray

Effective energy at the output of the array

T Amb

Ambient Temperature

E_Grid

Energy injected into grid

GlobInc

Global incident in coll. plane

EffArrR

Effic. Eout array / rough area

GlobEff

Effective Global, corr. for IAM and shadings

EffSysR

Effic. Eout system / rough area

Nov

Dec

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Grid-Connected System: Loss diagram

Project :

San Isidro

Simulation variant :

San Isidro

Main system parameters

PV Field Orientation
PV modules
PV Array
Inverter
Inverter pack
User's needs

System type
tilt
Model
Nb. of modules
Model
Nb. of units
Unlimited load (grid)

Grid-Connected
14 deg
azimuth
7NAC000-06A 255W
Pnom
19604
Pnom total
PowerGate Plus PVS-500 Pnom
10.0
Pnom total

0 deg
255 Wp
4999 kWp
500 kW ac
5000 kW ac

Loss diagram over the whole year

1794 kWh/m2
+2.6%
-3.2%
1782 kWh/m2 * 31893 m2 coll.
efficiency at STC = 15.8%
8951977 kWh

IAM factor on global

Effective irradiance on collectors
PV conversion
Array nominal energy (at STC effic.)

-3.5%
-10.8%
-3.2%
-2.1%
-1.0%
7226460 kWh

PV loss due to irradiance level

PV loss due to temperature
Module quality loss
Module array mismatch loss
Ohmic wiring loss
Array virtual energy at MPP

-4.5%
0.0%
-0.0%
0.0%
-0.0%
6896758 kWh
6896758 kWh

Horizontal global irradiation

Global incident in coll. plane

Inverter Loss during operation (efficiency)

Inverter Loss over nominal inv. power
Inverter Loss due to power threshold
Inverter Loss over nominal inv. voltage
Inverter Loss due to voltage threshold
Available Energy at Inverter Output
Energy injected into grid