Performance and Reliability of 1 MW Photovoltaic Power Facilities in AIST

Author

Otan, Kenji ; Takashima, Takumi ; Kurokawa, Kosuke

Author_Institution

Nat. Inst. of Adv. Ind. Sci. & Technol., Ibaraki

Volume

2

fYear

2006

fDate

7-12 May 2006

Firstpage

2046

Lastpage

2049

Abstract

The AIST 1 MW PV facilities consist of a total of 211 inverters of the 4-kW type designed principally for residential uses, and tens of inverters of the 10-kW unit designed principally for industrial uses. These inverters are connected to low-voltage (200 V) distribution line in AIST. There are 13 kinds of PV modules from 5 different technologies and tens kind of PV inverter from several manufactures. Benchmarking these PV components reveals the differences of the performance and reliability among other PV components under actual conditions. During the first two years, there were several failures in the system components, mainly caused by improper installation works. But the PV facilities showed proper performance ratio (around 70%) and perfect availability in total. The mean time of failure was 7.9 times. More than 64% of individual PV systems had no failures. The mean time to repair was only 3.3 days

Keywords

invertors; photovoltaic power systems; power distribution lines; power system reliability; solar cells; 1 MW; 10 kW; 200 V; 3.3 days; 4 kW; AIST; PV inverters; PV modules; photovoltaic power facilities; power distribution line; Abstracts; Agriculture; Availability; Inverters; Manufacturing industries; Monitoring; Performance analysis; Photovoltaic systems; Production systems; Solar power generation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Photovoltaic Energy Conversion, Conference Record of the 2006 IEEE 4th World Conference on

Conference_Location

Waikoloa, HI

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0016-3

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0017-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WCPEC.2006.279904

Filename

4060070