IDEA IN BRIEF The photovoltaic (PV) industry has been enjoying great growth over the past few years, mostly driven by high oil prices and environmental concerns. However, PV cost remains to be the greatest barrier for further expansion, and it needs to come down further to compete with traditional coal based grid electricity. Besides solar panels, the electronic components, such as PV inverters...

Renewable energy is high on international and national agendas. Currently, grid-connected photovoltaic (PV) systems are a popular technology to convert solar energy into electricity. Existing PV panels have a relatively low and varying output voltage so that the converter installed between the PVs and the grid should be equipped with high step-up and versatile control capabilities. In addition,...

Background: An effective social learning process which enhances public understanding of photovoltaic installations in residential dwellings and the economic instruments used by governments to encourage investment in this form of energy is regarded as an important component of implementing renewable energy policy in Australia. Methods: The development of social learning was explored in deliberat...

We present the development of a dynamic software simulation environment for modelling small and large scale photovoltaic (PV) energy generation systems. The model elements of solar panels, Maximum Power Point Trackers (MPPT) and solar inverters were integrated to a simulator system providing weather and power grid models as well as simulation of combustion power plants. The integrated system en...

The DC/AC inverters are used in grid-coupled Photovoltaic (PV) energy fabrication systems as the power meting out interface between the PV power source and the electric grid. Compared to the grid-coupled PV inverters that have galvanic separation (either on the DC, or on the AC side),the transformer-less PV inverters have the advantages of lower cost, higher efficiency, smaller size and lower w...

This paper presents a comprehensive approach about energy resources management in buildings connected to the electricity grid and equipped with energy production and storage systems. The aim of the work is to find interesting configurations that favour energy self-consumption while minimizing the impact of the local production on the grid. Energy and economic criteria are proposed to evaluate t...

Grid services are emerging technologies for the next generation web services. In this paper we design and implement a manageability framework based on Globus toolkit version 3. Two port types, one for enumerating resource ids and the other for enumerating associated resource ids, are proposed for Common Management Model and implemented in the framework. A number of Grid-enabled manageability se...

At present scenario, renewable energy sources are needed to meet the energy demand. They also mitigate environment pollution problems. The shortage of electrical energy demand can be meeting with renewable energy resources. A wind turbine (WT) and photovoltaic (PV) solar panels are primary energy sources. Grid connected renewable energy source like wind energy and solar energy are used to conne...