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Grid-Connected System: Simulation parameters

Project :
Geographical Site Situation Time defined as

PV Syst Report for 100 KWp

Navi Mumbai Latitude Legal Time Albedo

19.1N Time zone UT+5 0.20

Meteo data : Simulation variant :

Navi Mumbai, Synthetic Hourly data New simulation variant

Simulation parameters Collector Plane Orientation Horizon Near Shadings

PV Array Characteristics PV module

Number of PV modules Total number of PV modules Array global power Array operating characteristics (50C) Total area Inverter

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Simulation date Tilt 19 Free Horizon No Shadings Si-mono Model Manufacturer In series Nb. modules Nominal (STC) U mpp Module area Model Manufacturer Operating Voltage Unlimited load (grid)

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Country INDIA Longitude Altitude 73.0E 27 m Azimuth 0 20 strings 260 Wp 87.5 kWp (50C) 169 A 545 m Unit Nom. Power 100 kW AC Uv (wind) NOCT Loss Fraction Loss Fraction Loss Fraction bo Parameter 0.0 W/mK / m/s 56 C 1.5 % at STC 0.9 % 2.0 % at MPP 0.05

ELPS CS6P - 260MM Canadian Solar Inc. 19 modules In parallel 380 Unit Nom. Power At operating cond. 98.8 kWp 517 V I mpp Cell area 611 m CI 100 Delta Energy 450-800 V

Characteristics

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. Module Quality Loss Module Mismatch Losses Incidence effect, ASHRAE parametrization IAM = 53 mOhm

1 - bo (1/cos i - 1)

User's needs :

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Grid-Connected System: Main results

Project : Simulation variant :
Main system parameters PV Field Orientation PV modules PV Array Inverter User's needs Main simulation results System Production

PV Syst Report for 100 KWp New simulation variant

System type tilt Model Nb. of modules Model Unlimited load (grid) Produced Energy Performance Ratio PR

Grid-Connected 19 azimuth ELPS CS6P - 260MM Pnom 380 Pnom total CI 100 Pnom

Normalized productions (per installed kWp): Nominal power 98.8 kWp

8 Lc : Collection Loss (PV-array losses) 1.22 kWh/kWp/day Ls : System Loss (inverter, ...) 0.21 kWh/kWp/day Yf : Produced useful energy (inverter output) 3.99 kWh/kWp/day

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Normalized Energy [kWh/kWp/day]

Performance Ratio PR

Jan

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Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul

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0.8 0.7 0.6 0.5 0.4 0.3 0.2 0.1 Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec 0.0

143855 kWh/year 73.5 %

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0 260 Wp 98.8 kWp 100 kW ac Specific prod. 1456 kWh/kWp/year
Performance Ratio PR
PR : Performance Ratio (Yf / Yr) : 0.735 Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec

Jan

New simulation variant Balances and main results

GlobHor kWh/m January February March April May June July August September October November December Year Legends: GlobHor T Amb GlobInc GlobEff 147.0 155.0 196.0 202.0 208.0 148.0 119.0 123.0 143.0 160.0 141.0 136.0 1878.0 T Amb C 24.00 24.90 27.10 28.80 30.00 29.30 28.20 27.70 27.80 28.80 27.60 25.70 27.50 GlobInc kWh/m 180.3 177.8 208.5 197.5 193.0 137.0 112.0 118.6 144.8 175.6 167.2 167.2 1979.7 GlobEff kWh/m 175.2 173.1 203.0 191.6 186.6 132.0 107.7 114.2 140.2 170.6 162.6 162.5 1919.5 EArray kWh 14024 13567 15763 14818 14514 10585 8731 9304 11239 13361 12704 12942 151552 EArray E_Grid EffArrR EffSysR E_Grid kWh 13337 12914 14992 14089 13801 10007 8204 8773 10647 12690 12081 12321 143855 EffArrR % 12.72 12.48 12.37 12.28 12.31 12.64 12.75 12.83 12.70 12.45 12.43 12.66 12.52 EffSysR % 12.10 11.88 11.76 11.67 11.70 11.95 11.98 12.10 12.03 11.82 11.82 12.05 11.89

Horizontal global irradiation Ambient Temperature Global incident in coll. plane Effective Global, corr. for IAM and shadings

Effective energy at the output of the array Energy injected into grid Effic. Eout array / rough area Effic. Eout system / rough area

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Grid-Connected System: Loss diagram

Project : Simulation variant :
Main system parameters PV Field Orientation PV modules PV Array Inverter User's needs

PV Syst Report for 100 KWp New simulation variant

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

Grid-Connected 19 azimuth ELPS CS6P - 260MM Pnom 380 Pnom total CI 100 Pnom

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1919 kWh/m * 611 m coll.

efficiency at STC = 16.20% 190121 kWh

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1878 kWh/m +5.4% -3.0% -2.0% -15.1% -1.0% -2.1% -1.1% -5.1% 0.0% -0.0% 0.0% -0.1%

Loss diagram over the whole year

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0 260 Wp 98.8 kWp 100 kW ac
Horizontal global irradiation Global incident in coll. plane IAM factor on global Effective irradiance on collectors PV conversion Array nominal energy (at STC effic.) 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 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

151653 kWh

143855 kWh 143855 kWh