A Review on Performance of Grid-Connected Photovoltaic System

Ankit Kumar Sarraf, Ayush Raj, Nagendra Kumar Swarnkar, Sunil Agarwal

Abstract


India is located on the equatorial belt of the globe, thus receiving almost 5.8-6.8 kWh/m2/day radiation from the Sun. The total equivalent energy potential is about 6000 million GWh of energy per year. The maximum annual radiation is received in Rajasthan and Northern Gujarat. In this area, a big part of land is desert and very less populated, making it most suitable for solar power generation by constructing solar photovoltaic plants. Data for this study article are received from one of the SPV plants situated in Rajasthan. All the insolation received cannot be converted into electricity as the performance of such solar photovoltaic system depends on a variety of influencing factors including losses in design system and other environmental factors.

 


Keywords


Losses, Photovoltaic system, Performance ratio, Simulation.

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