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Dynamic reconfiguration systems for PV plant: Technical and economic analysis

Filippo PellitteriGuido AlaFabio ViolaGiuseppe SchettinoPietro RomanoRosario Miceli

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Control and OptimizationMonitoringComputer science020209 energyEnergy Engineering and Power Technology02 engineering and technologySettore ING-IND/32 - Convertitori Macchine E Azionamenti ElettriciNetwork topologylcsh:TechnologySettore ING-INF/01 - Elettronica0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineeringEconomic analysismedia_common.cataloged_instanceElectrical and Electronic EngineeringEuropean unionEngineering (miscellaneous)energy policies related to PV power plantsmedia_commonlcsh:TRenewable Energy Sustainability and the EnvironmentCase studieEnergy policies related to PV power plantmonitoring and case studiesEconomic analyseControl reconfiguration021001 nanoscience & nanotechnologyReliability engineeringSettore ING-IND/31 - Elettrotecnicaeconomic analysesenergy policies related to PV power plants; economic analyses; monitoring and case studiesShadingPv plant0210 nano-technologyEnergy (miscellaneous)Nominal power (photovoltaic)

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Solar plants suffer of partial shading and mismatch problems. Without considering the generation of hot spots and the resulting security issues, a monitoring system for the health of a PV plant should be useful to drive a dynamic reconfiguration system (DRS) to solve bottlenecks due to different panels’ shading. Over the years different DRS architectures have been proposed, but no suggestions about costs and benefits have been provided. Starting from technical subjects such as differences of the topologies driving the hardware complexity and number of components, this paper identifies the cost of DRS and its lifetime, and based on these issues it provides an economic analysis for a 6 kWp PV plant in different European Union countries, in which the dissimilar incentive policies have been considered.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2020-04-17
10.3390/en13082004http://hdl.handle.net/10447/415663