Assessment Method for Solar Home System

Author

Zou, Xinjing ; Bian, Li

Author_Institution

Photovoltaic & Wind Power Syst. Quality Test Center, Chinese Acad. of Sci., Beijing, China

fYear

2010

fDate

7-9 Nov. 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

This paper provides an assessment method for solar home system (SHS). The authors devised two formulas to perform the assessment. One is called total assessment score (TAS) which evaluates system quality. The other is called performance / price index (PPI) which gives an overall assessment to systems considering the quality, price and lifetime of SHS. The assessment method allows the assessment to occur for SHS which have passed the required tests performed according to the standard IEC 62124 Photovoltaic (PV) standalone systems Design verification. The authors calculate PPI by the assessment method and analyzed PPI for 5 examples of SHS. The result shows that the price is the most effective factors affecting PPI when TAS is the same. The other effective factors are TAS and guarantee repair coefficient when price is about the same.

Keywords

IEC standards; photovoltaic power systems; risk analysis; solar power stations; IEC 62124 standard; SHS; assessment method; photovoltaic stand-alone systems; price index; solar home system; total assessment score; Batteries; IEC standards; Indexes; Maintenance engineering; Photovoltaic systems; Wind power generation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

E-Product E-Service and E-Entertainment (ICEEE), 2010 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Henan

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7159-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICEEE.2010.5661290

Filename

5661290