Annex: CPV Power Plants at ISFOC

Martinez, Maria Elisa Marciano; Sánchez, Daniel; Rubia, O. de la; Rubio, Fernando

doi:10.1002/9781118755655.ch08b

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“…The objectives of this commissioning were to verify that the installation met the requirements and specifications of the project, to ensure the power installed and to estimate the expected losses. In 2007, when ISFOC started its operation, there was no official standard deployed to make the rating of a CPV plant, so ISFOC defined its own approach in the Call for Tenders [6,7,8]. It included a documental review, a visual inspection, an operation verification and the main two points: the determination of the peak power of the concentrators (CPV technology potential) and the estimation of the energy losses of the installation.…”

Section: Isfoc Project Stepsmentioning

confidence: 99%

8 years of CPV: ISFOC CPV plants, long-term performance analysis and results

Martinez¹,

Sánchez²,

Calvo-Parra³

et al. 2017

AIP Conference Proceedings

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Abstract. ISFOC is an R&D center focused on CPV in Puertollano (Spain). It was founded in 2006 and has 2.3MW of CPV plants in operation and connected to the grid since 2008. Therefore, for the time of the conference ISFOC has more than 8 years of real operation data. The performance analysis has been focused on ISFOC -La Nava CPV plant: 800kW of Concentrix (Soitec), SolFocus and Isofotón and one flat PV plant mounted on two-axis tracker. The main result obtained is that the rate of performance decrease obtained for a mature CPV technology and IEC 62108 certified is in the range of flat PV values, this means that the CPV technology does not present higher degradation rates than flat PV.

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Section: Isfoc Project Stepsmentioning

confidence: 99%