A development and challenges of grid-connected photovoltaic system in Malaysia

This paper presents the update status of a grid-connected photovoltaic (GCPV) system installed in Malaysia. There are 125 sites with total PV capacity power is approximately 1137.21 kWp of GC BIPV systems until the end of June, 2011 was monitored by Photovoltaic System Monitoring Centre (PVSMC). After 5 years of operation under MBIPV project, two main problems have been identified due to technical and environmental, which contributes to 60% and 40% respectively. This factor may contribute the decrement on the PV system performances in terms of field yield. By identifying the potential problem occurred, the knowledge and experiences in a GCPV system will used as the input and the potential problem will be avoided, in order to achieve the maximize the energy production. All issues are identified, which affects the system performances based on 5 years experience through MBIPV project by conducting short-term investigation.