Performance monitoring of a northern 3.2 kWp grid-connected photovoltaic system

Author

Thevenard, Didier ; Dignard-Bailey, Lisa ; Martel, Sylvain ; Turcotte, Dave

Author_Institution

Numerical Logics Inc., Waterloo, Ont., Canada

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

1711

Lastpage

1714

Abstract

This paper summarizes five years of monitoring of a facade-mounted grid-connected system in Canada´s far North. The system has been in operation since July 1995 and has delivered around 2 MWh of electrical power on an annual basis since then. Climatic and solar radiation conditions at the site are reviewed, and the performance of the system is assessed from a component perspective (PV array, power conditioning unit) and from a global perspective (AC power delivered to the grid, system efficiency, system reliability)

Keywords

monitoring; photovoltaic power systems; power system reliability; solar cell arrays; 3.2 kW; Canada; PV array; climatic conditions; facade-mounted grid-connected system; grid-connected photovoltaic system; performance monitoring; power conditioning unit; solar radiation conditions; system efficiency; system reliability; Arctic; Computerized monitoring; Costs; Educational institutions; Performance analysis; Photovoltaic systems; Power conditioning; Power generation; Sensor arrays; Solar power generation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, 2000. Conference Record of the Twenty-Eighth IEEE

Conference_Location

Anchorage, AK

ISSN

0160-8371

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5772-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PVSC.2000.916233

Filename

916233