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Grid-Connected System: Simulation parameters

Project : Grupo Melo - Panama Project

Geographical Site Panama Country Panama
Situation Latitude9.1N Longitude 79.3W
Time defined as Legal Time Time zone UT-5 Altitude 57 m
Albedo 0.20
Meteo data : Panama, Synthetic Hourly data

Simulation variant : Simulation Results for 1MWp system

Simulation date 08/05/14 15h38

Simulation parameters
Collector Plane Orientation Tilt 15 Azimuth 0
Models used Transposition Hay Diffuse Liu-Jordan
Horizon Free Horizon
Near Shadings No Shadings

PV Array Characteristics
PV module Si-poly Model D6P250B3A
Manufacturer DelSolar Co. Ltd.
Number of PV modules In series 14 modules In parallel 286 strings
Total number of PV modules Nb. modules 4004 Unit Nom. Power 250 Wp
Array global power Nominal (STC) 1001 kWp At operating cond. 885 kWp (50C)
Array operating characteristics (50C) U mpp 385 V I mpp 2302 A
Total area Module area 6541 m

Inverter Model SGI 500-480

Manufacturer Solectria
Characteristics Operating Voltage 300-500 V Unit Nom. Power 500 kW AC
Inverter pack Number of Inverter 2 units Total Power 1000 kW AC

PV Array loss factors

Thermal Loss factor Uc (const) 29.0 W/mK Uv (wind) 0.0 W/mK / m/s
=> Nominal Oper. Coll. Temp. (G=800 W/m, Tamb=20C, Wind=1 m/s.) NOCT 45 C
Wiring Ohmic Loss Global array res. 0.19 mOhm Loss Fraction 0.1 % at STC
Array Soiling Losses Loss Fraction 0.1 %
Module Quality Loss Loss Fraction 0.1 %
Module Mismatch Losses Loss Fraction 0.1 % at MPP
Incidence effect, ASHRAE parametrization IAM = 1 - bo (1/cos i - 1) bo Parameter 0.05

User's needs : Unlimited load (grid)

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Grid-Connected System: Main results

Project : Grupo Melo - Panama Project
Simulation variant : Simulation Results for 1MWp system

Main system parameters System type Grid-Connected

PV Field Orientation tilt 15 azimuth 0
PV modules Model D6P250B3A Pnom 250 Wp
PV Array Nb. of modules 4004 Pnom total 1001 kWp
Inverter Model SGI 500-480 Pnom 500 kW ac
Inverter pack Nb. of units 2.0 Pnom total 1000 kW ac
User's needs Unlimited load (grid)

Main simulation results

System Production Produced Energy 1573535 kWh/yearSpecific prod. 1572 kWh/kWp/year
Performance Ratio PR 80.9 %

Normalized productions (per installed kWp): Nominal power 1001 kWp Performance Ratio PR
7 1.0
PR : Performance Ratio (Yf / Yr) : 0.809
Lc : Collection Loss (PV-array losses) 0.88 kWh/kWp/day
Ls : System Loss (inverter, ...) 0.13 kWh/kWp/day
Yf : Produced useful energy (inverter output) 4.31 kWh/kWp/day
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0.8

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Normalized Energy [kWh/kWp/day]

Performance Ratio PR

0.6
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0.4

0.2
1

0 0.0
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec

Simulation Results for 1MWp system

Balances and main results

GlobHor T Amb GlobInc GlobEff EArray E_Grid EffArrR EffSysR

kWh/m C kWh/m kWh/m kWh kWh % %

January 161.1 25.60 179.4 174.3 150787 146434 12.85 12.48

February 156.8 25.60 167.3 162.8 140039 135978 12.80 12.43

March 184.5 25.80 187.2 182.0 156397 151870 12.78 12.41

April 172.3 26.00 165.2 159.9 137802 133753 12.75 12.38

May 163.2 26.10 151.2 145.9 125997 122248 12.74 12.36

June 152.0 26.10 138.4 133.0 114664 111181 12.67 12.29

July 163.1 25.90 148.9 143.6 123662 119861 12.70 12.31

August 165.0 25.90 155.8 150.5 129819 125921 12.74 12.36

September 160.0 25.90 158.4 153.3 132097 128158 12.75 12.37

October 154.9 25.80 160.9 156.0 134491 130466 12.78 12.39

November 144.5 25.90 157.6 153.0 131650 127686 12.77 12.38

December 152.5 25.90 172.2 167.2 144206 139978 12.80 12.43

Year 1929.9 25.88 1942.4 1881.5 1621610 1573535 12.76 12.39

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
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Grid-Connected System: Loss diagram

Project : Grupo Melo - Panama Project
Simulation variant : Simulation Results for 1MWp system

Main system parameters System type Grid-Connected

PV Field Orientation tilt 15 azimuth 0
PV modules Model D6P250B3A Pnom 250 Wp
PV Array Nb. of modules 4004 Pnom total 1001 kWp
Inverter Model SGI 500-480 Pnom 500 kW ac
Inverter pack Nb. of units 2.0 Pnom total 1000 kW ac
User's needs Unlimited load (grid)

Loss diagram over the whole year

1930 kWh/m Horizontal global irradiation

+0.6% Global incident in coll. plane

-3.1% IAM factor on global

1882 kWh/m * 6541 m coll. Effective irradiance on collectors

efficiency at STC = 15.41% PV conversion

1895924 kWh Array nominal energy (at STC effic.)

-3.8% PV loss due to irradiance level

-10.7% PV loss due to temperature

-0.1% Array Soiling loss

-0.1% Module quality loss
-0.1% Module array mismatch loss
-0.1% Ohmic wiring loss
1621611 kWh Array virtual energy at MPP

-3.0% Inverter Loss during operation (efficiency)

0.0% Inverter Loss over nominal inv. power
0.0% Inverter Loss due to power threshold
0.0% Inverter Loss over nominal inv. voltage
-0.0% Inverter Loss due to voltage threshold
1573535 kWh Available Energy at Inverter Output

1573535 kWh Energy injected into grid