Spatial Factors Consideration in Site Selection of Ground-mounted PV Power Plants

Piyatadsananon, Pantip

doi:10.1016/j.egypro.2016.10.135

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“…19 More recent studies on the potential for solar PV power emphasized regions, for example, West Africa, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), and the European Union [20][21][22] ; countries such as Russia, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Oman, China, Iran, and Tanzania [23][24][25][26][27][28][29] ; or a single city. 30 Studies addressing the assessment of solar power potential tended to identify individual technical factors, such as analysis of land suitability and site selection criteria 29,[31][32][33] ; optimization of tilt and orientation of panels to make best use of solar radiation [34][35][36][37][38][39] ; evaluation of the impact of temperature 40 ; models of performance under shading conditions, 41,42 quantification of the degradation and performance ratio of solar panels, 43,44 etc. Little research has been devoted to an integrated approach with comprehensive consideration of all of these parameters and their application in modeling the potential of solar PV in the BRI region with high spatial and temporal resolution.…”

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The Potential of Photovoltaics to Power the Belt and Road Initiative

Chen

et al. 2019

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Carbon-intensive energy infrastructure in the BRI region has exacerbated prospects for climate change. An integrated model was developed to explore the potential of solar photovoltaics as a climate-friendly alternative to achieve the 2 C climate targets outlined in Paris. Results indicate that the solar photovoltaics potential in the BRI region is 41.3 times the regional electricity demand of 2016. The mismatch between technical potential and electricity consumption highlights the advantage of regional cooperation as well as investments in electric power grid interconnections.

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The Potential of Photovoltaics to Power the Belt and Road Initiative

Chen

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“…The PV modules can be installed on the ground, on the rooftop or integrated in the windows and facades of the buildings. The availability of land is an important factor to be considered for the installation of a ground-mounted PV system [23], and this is a major constraint in urban areas.…”

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Comparative Analysis of Ground-Mounted vs. Rooftop Photovoltaic Systems Optimized for Interrow Distance between Parallel Arrays

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The aim of this research is to perform an in-depth performance comparison of ground-mounted and rooftop photovoltaic (PV) systems. The PV modules are tilted to receive maximum solar irradiance. The efficiency of the PV system decreases due to the mutual shading impact of parallel tilted PV modules. The mutual shading decreases with the increasing interrow distance of parallel PV modules, but a distance that is too large causes an increase in land cost in the case of ground-mounted configuration and a decrease in roof surface shading in the case of rooftop configuration, because larger sections of roof are exposed to sun radiation. Therefore, an optimized interrow distance for the two PV configurations is determined with the aim being to minimize the levelized cost of energy (LCoE) and maximize the energy yield. The model of the building is simulated in EnergyPlus software to determine the cooling load requirement and roof surface temperatures under different shading scenarios. The layout of the rooftop PV system is designed in Helioscope software. A detailed comparison of the two systems is carried out based on energy output, performance ratio, capacity utilization factor (CUF), energy yield, and LCoE. Compared to ground-mounted configuration, the rooftop PV configuration results in a 2.9% increase in CUF, and up to a 23.7% decrease in LCoE. The results of this research show that installing a PV system on a roof has many distinct advantages over ground-mounted PV systems such as the shading of the roof, which leads to the curtailment of the cooling energy requirements of the buildings in hot regions and land cost savings, especially for urban environments.

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Grid Performance Enhancement Study Under Restricted Placement and Sizing of PV Distributed Generation

Soliman

Emara

Nashed

2022

J. Electr. Eng. Technol.

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Increasing power demand and encouragement of renewable energy generation appear the importance of Distributed Generation (DG). The Photovoltaic (PV) is considered a resource of distributed generation. The integration of PV-DG unit into the grid has a significant effect on reducing real power losses, operating costs, and enhancing voltage stability. Most of the current researches handle this issue from the point of optimizing the PV-DG unit size and location to enhance the grid performance. In fact and due to optimal design criteria, PV location and size are selected, implemented, and no luxury for a change. In this research, specific selection of sizing and placement of PV-DG unit in radial distribution systems was previously determined and installed. The main goal of this research is to study the grid performance enhancement under these conditions. IEEE 15 bus system has been taken to perform this study based on a MATLAB environment. The idea of this study is to analyze the grid performance when connecting the PV-DG unit to each bus across the transmission line to find the optimally connected bus considering the available transfer capacity of the existing network. For optimal grid performance enhancement, results show that PV-DG unit fragmentation into small units to be connected to all buses was the best solution.

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Spatial Factors Consideration in Site Selection of Ground-mounted PV Power Plants

Cited by 11 publications

References 2 publications

The Potential of Photovoltaics to Power the Belt and Road Initiative

The Potential of Photovoltaics to Power the Belt and Road Initiative

Comparative Analysis of Ground-Mounted vs. Rooftop Photovoltaic Systems Optimized for Interrow Distance between Parallel Arrays

Grid Performance Enhancement Study Under Restricted Placement and Sizing of PV Distributed Generation

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