PV Systems Installed at a Thai University for PV Development : Real Lessons Learnt

This paper presents the progress of the development for PV systems, all of them are stand alone type, that have been installed in Rajamangala University of Technology Thanyaburi which is located at Klong 6, Thanyaburi district, Pathumthani province of Thailand. The main aim for installation these systems is to promote the some solar energy projects in terms of PV systems based on the energy policy of university. The project, which is partially supported by the government´s budget, involves some PV systems such as the pumping system, street lighting, solar home system, board of the Faculty map and so on. The systems have providing an installed capacity around 2,170 W _p. The resulting information will include the system performance over two years monitoring period and together with some operational experiences for example reliability and maintenance, acceptability and user satisfaction. Nevertheless, the life cycle cost of each system is comparable and the key issues discussed in the paper are the problems encountered under installation