An automated high-granularity tool for a fast evaluation of the yield of PV plants accounting for shading effects

被引：38
作者：
d'Alessandro, Vincenzo [1 ]
Di Napoli, Fabio [1 ]
Guerriero, Pierluigi [1 ]
Daliento, Santolo [1 ]
机构：
[1] Univ Naples Federico II, Dept Elect Engn & Informat Technol, I-80125 Naples, Italy
来源：
RENEWABLE ENERGY | 2015年 / 83卷
关键词：
Electrical simulation; Energy yield; Masking; Photovoltaic (PV) plant; Shading; Solar irradiance; CURRENT-VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS; COMPUTER-SIMULATION; FIELD; SYSTEMS; DESIGN; ROWS;
D O I：
10.1016/j.renene.2015.04.041
中图分类号：
X [环境科学、安全科学];
学科分类号：
08 ; 0830 ;
摘要：
In this paper, an automated tool for the evaluation of I-V characteristics and energy yield of photovoltaic (PV) plants is proposed. The tool translates an AutoCAD drawing of the plant and surrounding obstacles into an in-house Matlab code that automatically generates an equivalent circuit representing the system, which is in turn solved by PSPICE. The plant is described at a high-granularity single-cell level, so that also the non-intuitive influence of small-area shadows can be accurately predicted. Nevertheless, the robust PSPICE engine ensures short simulation times. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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页码：294 / 304
页数：11
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