Case Study: Condition Assessment of a Photovoltaic Power Plant using Change-point Analysis
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چکیده
Today, the operation of sustainable power plants mainly relies on visualization of power production. Measurement data of such power plants are often discarded. We show the idle potential of such data by applying a state of the art algorithm to recognize malfunctions in a photovoltaic power plant. Up to now, these failures could only be found by manual inspection of the power plant every six weeks. Our results show a substantial financial benefit: power outages of power plant components due to fuse failures often can be recognized within days. This fact results in a reduction of financial losses up to at least 63% by being able to schedule repairs
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