Title :
Performance Evaluation of Solar Home Systems
Author :
Zou, Xinjing ; Bian, Li
Author_Institution :
Photovoltaic & Wind Power Syst. Quality Test Center, Chinese Acad. of Sci., Beijing, China
Abstract :
In this paper, the authors report the performance test results of solar home systems according to IEC 62124: Photovoltaic Stand-alone System-Design verification. The performance test evaluates solar home systems in the several aspects such as battery usable capacity, functional test, recovery test, system balance point, days of autonomy, etc.. The results show that unreasonable design is a main reason to cause failure. The other reasons are considered as battery quality problem, inappropriate setting for controller and controller quality problems.
Keywords :
design engineering; home automation; performance evaluation; photovoltaic power systems; quality control; secondary cells; IEC 62124; battery quality problem; controller quality problems; performance evaluation; photovoltaic stand alone system design verification; solar home systems; Batteries; Discharges; IEC standards; Performance evaluation; Photovoltaic systems; System analysis and design;
Conference_Titel :
E-Product E-Service and E-Entertainment (ICEEE), 2010 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Henan
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-7159-1
DOI :
10.1109/ICEEE.2010.5661507
