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Grid-Connected System: Simulation parameters

Project :

Grid-Connected Project at IIEST Shibpur

Geographical Site

Calcutta
Latitude
Legal Time
Albedo

Situation
Time defined as

Country
22.2N
Time zone UT+6
0.20

Meteo data :

Calcutta, Synthetic Hourly data

Simulation variant :

New simulation variant

Simulation date

Longitude
Altitude

India
88.4E
10 m

24/11/15 01h06

Simulation parameters
Tilt

Collector Plane Orientation

Horizon

Free Horizon

Near Shadings

No Shadings

23

Azimuth

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 (50C)
U mpp
Total area
Module area

MBSL eLITE 60 250Wp

Moserbaer
20 modules
In parallel
7860
Unit Nom. Power
At operating cond.
1965 kWp
541 V
I mpp
Cell area
12669 m

393 strings
250 Wp
1739 kWp (50C)
3211 A
11477 m

Model
Manufacturer
Operating Voltage
Number of Inverter

Powador 18.0 TL3

KACO new energy
200-800 V
Unit Nom. Power
108 units
Total Power

15.0 kW AC
1620.0 kW AC

PV module

Inverter
Characteristics
Inverter pack

PV Array loss factors

Thermal Loss factor
Uc (const) 20.0 W/mK
=> Nominal Oper. Coll. Temp. (G=800 W/m, Tamb=20C, Wind=1 m/s.)
Wiring Ohmic Loss

Global array res.

Array Soiling Losses

Module Quality Loss
Module Mismatch Losses
Incidence effect, ASHRAE parametrization

User's needs :

IAM =

Unlimited load (grid)

Uv (wind)
NOCT

0.0 W/mK / m/s

56 C

2.9 mOhm

Loss Fraction

1.5 % at STC

1 - bo (1/cos i - 1)

Loss Fraction
Loss Fraction
Loss Fraction
bo Parameter

3.0 %
0.1 %
2.0 % at MPP
0.05

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Grid-Connected System: Main results

Project :

Grid-Connected Project at IIEST Shibpur

Simulation variant :

New simulation variant

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
23
azimuth
MBSL eLITE 60 250Wp
Pnom
7860
Pnom total
Powador 18.0 TL3
Pnom
108.0
Pnom total

2675 MWh/year
73.1 %

Specific prod.

Normalized productions (per installed kWp): Nominal power 1965 kWp

1361 kWh/kWp/year

Performance Ratio PR

0.8
Lc : Collection Loss (PV-array losses)
1.26 kWh/kWp/day
Ls : System Loss (inverter, ...)
0.11 kWh/kWp/day
Yf : Produced useful energy (inverter output) 3.73 kWh/kWp/day

0
250 Wp
1965 kWp
15.00 kW ac
1620 kW ac

PR : Performance Ratio (Yf / Yr) : 0.731

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

Nov

New simulation variant

Balances and main results
GlobHor

T Amb

GlobInc

GlobEff

EArray

E_Grid

EffArrR

EffSysR

kWh/m

kWh/m

kWh/m

MWh

MWh

January

129.0

19.70

161.0

156.4

248.7

242.0

12.20

11.87

February

137.0

22.90

159.7

155.3

241.9

235.3

11.96

11.63

March

168.0

27.10

178.8

173.7

260.9

253.4

11.51

11.18

April

192.0

29.80

189.0

183.4

270.7

263.0

11.30

10.98

May

194.0

29.70

178.6

172.6

258.2

251.0

11.41

11.09

June

145.0

29.60

132.4

127.6

191.6

186.2

11.43

11.10

July

135.0

29.10

124.6

119.9

180.9

175.7

11.46

11.13

August

138.0

28.80

132.6

127.9

192.5

187.1

11.46

11.14

September

126.0

29.00

129.1

124.9

188.8

183.5

11.54

11.22

October

147.0

27.90

163.6

158.8

241.1

234.5

11.64

11.31

November

132.0

24.70

161.0

156.7

241.0

234.4

11.82

11.49

December

119.0

20.40

151.3

147.0

234.7

228.5

12.25

11.93

Year

1762.0

26.57

1861.7

1804.2

2751.0

2674.6

11.66

11.34

Legends:

GlobHor

Horizontal global irradiation

EArray

T Amb

Ambient Temperature

E_Grid

Effective energy at the output of the array

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

Dec

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Grid-Connected System: Loss diagram

Project :

Grid-Connected Project at IIEST Shibpur

Simulation variant :

New simulation variant

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
23
azimuth
MBSL eLITE 60 250Wp
Pnom
7860
Pnom total
Powador 18.0 TL3
Pnom
108.0
Pnom total

0
250 Wp
1965 kWp
15.00 kW ac
1620 kW ac

Loss diagram over the whole year

1762 kWh/m
+5.7%
-3.1%
1804 kWh/m * 12669 m coll.

Horizontal global irradiation

Global incident in coll. plane
IAM factor on global
Effective irradiance on collectors

efficiency at STC = 15.55%

PV conversion

3555 MWh

Array nominal energy (at STC effic.)

-3.7%
-14.1%
-3.2%
-0.1%
-2.2%

PV loss due to irradiance level

PV loss due to temperature
Array Soiling loss
Module quality loss
Module array mismatch loss

-1.1%

Ohmic wiring loss

Array virtual energy at MPP

-2.8%

Inverter Loss during operation (efficiency)

2751 MWh

0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2675 MWh

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

2675 MWh

Energy injected into grid