This paper presents the optimal design and simulation of a grid-connected Photovoltaic (PV) system to supply electric power to meet the energy demand by Electrical Department in University of Tripoli Libya. Solar radiation is the key factor determining electricity produced by photovoltaic (PV) systems. This paper is designed to develop a novel method to calculate the solar photovoltaic generati...

Using Photovoltaic systems is gradually expanded by increasing energy demand. Abundance and availability of this energy, has turned to one of the most important sources of renewable energy. Unfortunately, photovoltaic systems have two big problems: first, those have very low energy conversion efficiency (in act between 12 and 42 percent under certain circumstances). Second, the power produced b...

Solar power and wind are the most promising distributed energy sources. The photovoltaic system has attracted significant attention in recent years. Although their benefits are numerous, they are known to create power quality issues, because of the power electronic converters they use. This paper investigates if there is a possibility to improve power quality only by connecting a solar photovol...

Solar energy availability and high installation costs of photovoltaic system encourage to extract maximum power from solar radiation. Since conventional methods cannot differentiate change in power due to perturb voltage and changing weather condition, these algorithms are prone to change under varying climatic conditions. The proposed system presents the high efficiency maximum power point tra...

This paper deals with the study of different type of MPPT (Maximum Power Point Tracking) algorithms in a solar photovoltaic system (SPV) in order to extract maximum power from the solar modules. Here the solar array is integrated with the grid to provide power, as the traditional sources of power generation is depleting at a faster rate and also to provide power during peak hours in urban areas...

The continuous power supply for rural areas can be possible by using renewable hybrid power generation system and also reduction of the energy storage devices for the system. The impact of the shortage of power supply probability, surpluspower power generation, ratio of the energy supply to load demand, renewable fraction of different types of energy resources (solar and wind) and the combined ...

A reliability and availability model has been developed for a portion of the 4.6 megawatt (MWdc) photovoltaic system operated by Tucson Electric Power (TEP) at Springerville, Arizona using a commercially available software tool, GoldSimTM. This reliability model has been populated with life distributions and repair distributions derived from data accumulated during five years of operation of th...