PVSYST V5.

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Grid-Connected System: Simulation parameters

Project : Grid-Connected Project at Kambaniru, Sumba, NTT

Geographical Site Kambaniru, Sumba, NTT Country Indonesia
Situation Latitude 9.7°N Longitude 120.3°E
Time defined as Legal Time Time zone UT+8 Altitude 20 m
Albedo 0.20
Meteo data : Kambaniru, Sumba, NTT, Synthetic Hourly data

Simulation variant : New simulation variant

Simulation date 10/08/16 12h35

Simulation parameters
Collector Plane Orientation Tilt 12° Azimuth 0°
Horizon Free Horizon
Near Shadings No Shadings

PV Array Characteristics
PV module Si-poly Model Canadian_CS6X_320P
Manufacturer Canadian Solar Inc
Number of PV modules In series 17 modules In parallel 368 strings
Total number of PV modules Nb. modules 6256 Unit Nom. Power 320 Wp
Array global power Nominal (STC) 2002 kWp At operating cond. 1811 kWp (50°C)
Array operating characteristics (50°C) U mpp 573 V I mpp 3158 A
Total area Module area 12004 m² Cell area 10945 m²

Inverter Model IF-600 TL

Manufacturer Jema
Characteristics Operating Voltage 495-875 V Unit Nom. Power 600 kW AC
Inverter pack Number of Inverter 3 units Total Power 1800 kW AC

PV Array loss factors

Thermal Loss factor Uc (const) 20.0 W/m²K Uv (wind) 0.0 W/m²K / m/s
=> Nominal Oper. Coll. Temp. (G=800 W/m², Tamb=20°C, Wind=1 m/s.) NOCT 56 °C
Wiring Ohmic Loss Global array res. 3.0 mOhm Loss Fraction 1.5 % at STC
Module Quality Loss Loss Fraction 0.8 %
Module Mismatch Losses Loss Fraction 2.0 % 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 : Grid-Connected Project at Kambaniru, Sumba, NTT
Simulation variant : New simulation variant

Main system parameters System type Grid-Connected

PV Field Orientation tilt 12° azimuth 0°
PV modules Model Canadian_CS6X_320P Pnom 320 Wp
PV Array Nb. of modules 6256 Pnom total 2002 kWp
Inverter Model IF-600 TL Pnom 600 kW ac
Inverter pack Nb. of units 3.0 Pnom total 1800 kW ac
User's needs Unlimited load (grid)

Main simulation results

System Production Produced Energy 3209 MWh/year Specific prod. 1603 kWh/kWp/year
Performance Ratio PR 77.3 %

Normalized productions (per installed kWp): Nominal power 2002 kWp Performance Ratio PR
8 0.8
PR : Performance Ratio (Yf / Yr) : 0.773
Lc : Collection Loss (PV-array losses) 1.21 kWh/kWp/day
Ls : System Loss (inverter, ...) 0.08 kWh/kWp/day
7 Yf : Produced useful energy (inverter output) 4.39 kWh/kWp/day 0.7

6 0.6
Normalized Energy [kWh/kWp/day]

5 0.5
Performance Ratio PR

4 0.4

3 0.3

2 0.2

1 0.1

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

New simulation variant

Balances and main results

GlobHor T Amb GlobInc GlobEff EArray E_Grid EffArrR EffSysR

kWh/m² °C kWh/m² kWh/m² MWh MWh % %
January 176.4 26.30 195.5 189.9 307.8 302.3 13.12 12.88
February 177.5 26.20 190.0 184.8 296.6 291.5 13.01 12.78
March 212.0 26.60 216.6 210.6 340.0 334.4 13.08 12.86
April 207.9 26.90 201.5 195.5 316.7 311.4 13.09 12.87
May 185.1 27.10 173.2 167.3 273.3 268.5 13.15 12.91
June 148.8 27.10 138.3 133.4 217.8 213.6 13.12 12.87
July 152.2 26.90 143.2 138.0 227.1 222.8 13.21 12.96
August 157.8 27.10 152.1 146.9 240.9 236.4 13.20 12.95
September 157.2 27.00 156.9 152.1 248.1 243.6 13.17 12.93
October 156.2 26.90 161.9 156.9 256.6 251.9 13.20 12.96
November 152.4 26.90 164.2 159.2 258.5 254.0 13.12 12.89
December 161.5 26.70 180.8 175.6 283.8 278.8 13.07 12.84
Year 2045.0 26.81 2074.0 2010.2 3267.2 3209.2 13.12 12.89

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 : Grid-Connected Project at Kambaniru, Sumba, NTT
Simulation variant : New simulation variant

Main system parameters System type Grid-Connected

PV Field Orientation tilt 12° azimuth 0°
PV modules Model Canadian_CS6X_320P Pnom 320 Wp
PV Array Nb. of modules 6256 Pnom total 2002 kWp
Inverter Model IF-600 TL Pnom 600 kW ac
Inverter pack Nb. of units 3.0 Pnom total 1800 kW ac
User's needs Unlimited load (grid)

Loss diagram over the whole year

2045 kWh/m² Horizontal global irradiation

+1.4% Global incident in coll. plane

-3.1% IAM factor on global

2010 kWh/m² * 12004 m² coll. Effective irradiance on collectors

efficiency at STC = 16.70% PV conversion

4031 MWh Array nominal energy (at STC effic.)

-3.4% PV loss due to irradiance level

-12.6% PV loss due to temperature

-0.8% Module quality loss

-2.2% Module array mismatch loss
-1.1% Ohmic wiring loss
3267 MWh Array virtual energy at MPP

-1.8% 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
3209 MWh Available Energy at Inverter Output

3209 MWh Energy injected into grid