Investigation of the performance of photovoltaic systems

• Main Author: Alistoun, Warren James
• Format: Others
• Language: English
• Published: Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University 2012
• Subjects: Photovoltaic power systems > South Africa; Photovoltaic power generation > South Africa
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/d1008396

The main objective of this study was to investigate the performance of grid integrated PV systems. A data acquisition (DAQ) system was developed to monitor the performance of an existing grid integrated PV system with battery storage. This system is referred to as a grid assisted PV system. A data logger was used together with the inverters built in data logger to monitor environmental and electrical data on a grid tie PV system which was deployed during this study. To investigate the performance of these grid integrated PV systems PV and BOS device characterization was performed. This was achieved by using current voltage curve tracers and the DAQ system developed. Energy yield estimations were calculated referring to the literature review and a meteorological reference for comparison with measured energy yields from the grid tie PV system.