In today’s and future’s electrical power grid system, regenerative energy sources like photovoltaic (PV) power systems consisting of PV panels and grid-connected inverters are very popular in domestic as well as in commercial power plants. High competitive pressure among PV power system providers due to cut inverter’s costs can be observed. Therefore different technical approaches have to be ev...

Abstract— A case study of grid connected PV system analysis is done for 500 kW grid connected solar photovoltaic (PV) system at a northern location of Bangladesh. HOMER and MATLAB Programming tools and monthly average solar radiation data from NASA is used for this study. In this paper a grid connected PV power plant is designed and simulated using HOMER software, the power plant is sized to su...

Large solar panels were constructed from polymer solar cell modules prepared using full roll-to-roll (R2R) manufacture based on the previously published ProcessOne. The individual flexible polymer solar modules comprising multiple serially connected single cell stripes were joined electrically and laminated between a 4 mm tempered glass window and black Tetlar foil using two sheets of 0.5 mm th...

This paper addresses an economic study of the installation of photovoltaic (PV) solar panels for residential power generation in Santiago, Chile, based on the different parameters of a PV system, such as efficiency. As a performance indicator, the Levelized Cost of Energy (LCOE) was used, which indicates the benefit of the facility vs. the current cost of electrical energy. In addition, due to ...

A proposal for energy management in an off-grid photovoltaic pumping and irrigation system is presented and evaluated for a specific case study. The system is assumed to be based on off-the-shelf components (photovoltaic panels, battery banks, DC/AC converters, relays, submergible pumps, etc.), with a microcontroller-based energy management system, deciding when to disconnect the load from the ...

As an increasing number of California households install solar panels, the current approach to retail electricity pricing makes it harder for the state’s utilities to recover their costs. Unless policymakers change how they price grid-supplied electricity, a regulatory crisis where a declining number of less affluent customers will be asked to pay for a growing share of the costs is likely to o...

In the context of increasing concern for anthropogenic CO 2 emissions, residential building sector still represents a major contributor to energy demand. The integration renewable sources, and particularly photovoltaic (PV) panels, is becoming an increasingly widespread solution reducing carbon footprint systems (BES). However, volatility generation its mismatch with typical demand patterns are...

Lack of adequate transmission capacity is a major impediment in connecting more of renewable energy sources (wind, solar) into the transmission grid.This paper at first presents a control algorithm for a single-phase grid-connected photovoltaic system in which aninverter designed for gridconnected photovoltaic arrays can synchronize a sinusoidal current output with a voltage grid. The power pro...

Photovoltaic(PV) systems are expected to play an important role in future energy production. An asymmetrical interleaved high step-up converter is used to get high step up gain to step up the input energy which is obtained from PV panel without operating at an extreme duty ratio. The traditional inverter which is used to convert the converter output energy from DC to AC, contains a line frequen...

The environmental sustainability of a semi-industrial solar photo-Fenton reactor, treating real effluents emanating from a pharmaceutical laboratory, is assessed herein. The life cycle assessment/analysis (LCA) methodology was employed and real life cycle inventory (LCI) data was collected from a ferrioxalate-assisted homogeneous solar photo-Fenton wastewater treatment plant (WWTP), at Ciudad R...