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| URV's Author/s: | Bourouis Chebata, Mahmoud |
| Author, as appears in the article.: | Bentouba S; Bourouis M; Zioui N; Pirashanthan A; Velauthapillai D |
| Author's mail: | mahmoud.bourouis@urv.cat |
| Author identifier: | 0000-0003-2476-5967 |
| Journal publication year: | 2021 |
| Publication Type: | Journal Publications |
| APA: | Bentouba S; Bourouis M; Zioui N; Pirashanthan A; Velauthapillai D (2021). Performance assessment of a 20 MW photovoltaic power plant in a hot climate using real data and simulation tools. Energy Reports, 7(), 7297-7314. DOI: 10.1016/j.egyr.2021.10.082 |
| Papper original source: | Energy Reports. 7 7297-7314 |
| Abstract: | The present study aims to evaluate the aptness of two commercial simulators, HOMER Pro and RETScreen Expert, as predictors of the performance of a large-scale photovoltaic power plant designed to deliver up to 20 MW in a hot climate, for which 26 months of real operational data are available. The power plant is located in the province of Adrar in the south of Algeria and classified as one of the hot regions worldwide. Performance parameters were reference yield, performance ratio, capacity factor, temperature loss and statistical indicators. The results showed that photovoltaic power plant performance depends on cell technology, insolation, and environmental conditions, especially temperature. The deviations between the simulation results and real monitoring data were found to be smaller in the case of HOMER Pro simulation tool. The total annual energy supplied in 2018 by the power plant was 36364MWh, whereas RETScreen Expert predicted 42339 MWh, or about 14% more and HOMER Pro predicted 34508 MWh or about 5.1% less. The influence of temperature on the power plant output was strong, causing a 40% drop during the summer, due to the limitations of the polycrystalline cell technology. This needs to be considered in the design of future photovoltaic power plants to be operated in hot climates. HOMER Pro and RETScreen Expert predicted an average annual final yield of 5.128 h/day, a module efficiency of 15% and an inverter efficiency of 98%. The t statistics were 3.75 for HOMER Pro and 6.12 for RETScreen Expert. The analysis shows that the 20 MW photovoltaic plant in hot climate experiences high losses compared to an equivalent plant based on thin-film photovoltaic cells. |
| Article's DOI: | 10.1016/j.egyr.2021.10.082 |
| Link to the original source: | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S235248472101101X |
| Papper version: | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion |
| licence for use: | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ |
| Department: | Enginyeria Mecànica |
| Licence document URL: | https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/ |
| Thematic Areas: | Interdisciplinar General energy Energy (miscellaneous) Energy (all) Energy & fuels |
| Keywords: | Solar-radiation Retscreen Real-time monitoring Large-scale photovoltaic power plant Hot climate Homer pro technologies system south retscreen real-time monitoring pv models integration hot climate homer pro feasibility economic-analysis degradation |
| Entity: | Universitat Rovira i Virgili |
| Record's date: | 2024-07-27 |
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