For optimum performance, the expansion of solar energy installations requires a robust and reliable infrastructure of panels, inverters and system control. Because of the geographically distributed and sometimes remote deployment of these solar power installations, reliability and performance is paramount to wider-scale adoption of these systems. Thus, it is very important to monitor the perfor...

• We study how households with photovoltaic panels consume electricity. do this via a longitudinal dataset on 700 households. find that there are differences in electricity patterns between and without panels. still much can be gained by shifting the consumption of Installing (PV) household rooftops significantly contribute to mitigating anthropogenic climate change. The mitigation potential wi...

Distributed Generation (DG) is an effective way of integrating renewable energy sources to conventional power grid, which improves the reliability and efficiency of power systems. Photovoltaic (PV) systems are ideal DGs thanks to their attractive benefits, such as availability of solar energy and low installation costs. Battery groups are used in PV systems to balance the power flows and elimin...

The advent of free-form 3-D modeling software has allowed architects and designers to create almost any shape imaginable. In order to physically realise these computer models, say as a building or a sculpture, an internal armature can be used along with non-load bearing panels to create the required external surface. Examples include Gehry’s Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao and the Body Zone in the ...

Energy has been increasingly generated or collected by different entities on the power grid (e.g., universities, hospitals and householdes) via solar panels, wind turbines or local generators in the past decade. With local energy, such electricity consumers can be considered as “microgrids” which can simulataneously generate and consume energy. Some microgrids may have excessive energy that can...

The number of installations of photovoltaic solar panels and associated inverter systems within residential premises is increasing. As these systems incorporate a power electronics front end, they will have an influence on the quality of supply in regards to voltage harmonics. This paper investigates the harmonic impact on an 11kV distribution system due to the installation of residential type ...

Now-a-days Smart Grid is becoming a key element of energy strategies. Several definitions are coming in different literature but the overall meaning of these different definitions are same. Smart Grid is an intelligent monitoring, control and self healing of an electrical system with the help of information (data) communication in between the end user or generating station and control room. Thi...

In this study, thermodynamic and economic analysis of a photovoltaic electricity generation system (PVEGS) with and without self-cleaning panels is reported. In the first part, thermodynamic analyses are used to characterize the performance of the system. In the second part, the economic comparison of photovoltaic electricity generation with and without self-cleaning panels is carried out for a...

The distributed energy sources are commonly used small energy generating sources. Combination of these small energy sources will form microgrid in an interrelated manner to provide a required amount of demand power management. A grid connected PV system consist of solar panels, batteries with back up in case of emergencies, DC-DC converters, Maximum power point tracker (MPPT) and Demand power m...

In this work infrared thermography is used for the performance assessment of a photovoltaic array integrated on the southern façade of NTUA's Chemical Engineering Building. This grid-connected 50 kWp solar photovoltaic array, installed under an EC Thermie Project (SE-142-97-GR-ES), operates in a standard and hybrid PV-Thermal configuration, meant to save conventional energy. The thermographic s...