A Study on Operation of Photovoltaic Grid System Using Weather Forecast

Author

Fujii, Kenichi ; Yamagiwa, Motoi ; Uehara, Minoru

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. & Comput. Sci., Toyo Univ., Kawagoe, Japan

fYear

2011

fDate

Nov. 30 2011-Dec. 2 2011

Firstpage

157

Lastpage

163

Abstract

In keeping with green IT, we propose reusing obsolete older-model PCs as a grid to create a high performance environment consisting of ordinary PCs. However, such a grid has continuous energy requirements, which is undesirable in terms of environmental concerns, due to the increased CO2 emissions from generating the required electricity. Therefore, this study aims to realize a grid powered by solar power to overcome the disadvantage, while reusing obsolete older model PCs. In this paper, we propose a means of operating a grid system powered by photovoltaics using weather reports to operate the system effectively and validate the proposal through simulations.

Keywords

environmental factors; photovoltaic power systems; power grids; solar power; weather forecasting; green IT; high performance environment; obsolete older-model PC; photovoltaic grid system; solar power; weather forecast; weather report; Air pollution; Batteries; Electricity; Photovoltaic cells; Recycling; Weather forecasting; green I; grid; solar cell;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Networking and Collaborative Systems (INCoS), 2011 Third International Conference on

Conference_Location

Fukuoka

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1908-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/INCoS.2011.41

Filename

6132793