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Does climate change affect the design of stand-alone PV systems?

Does climate change affect the design of stand-alone PV systems?
Does climate change affect the design of stand-alone PV systems?
This paper investigates the effect of using sequences of past daily solar radiation data on PV system sizing for the case of Efford (UK). For a given system configuration that never sheds load, the lowest SOC reached by the battery is found by an energy balance model, and the energy deficit calculated for a given climatic cycle. Although the average irradiation changes little during the years 1958-1994, there is a substantial increase in the storage requirement, which seems to be related with an increase in the persistence of low solar radiation values.
stand-alone PV system sizing, battery SOC, climate change
1062-7995
635-639
Fragaki, A.
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Markvart, T.
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Fragaki, A.
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Markvart, T.
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Fragaki, A. and Markvart, T. (2005) Does climate change affect the design of stand-alone PV systems? Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications, 13 (7), 635-639. (doi:10.1002/pip.617).

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This paper investigates the effect of using sequences of past daily solar radiation data on PV system sizing for the case of Efford (UK). For a given system configuration that never sheds load, the lowest SOC reached by the battery is found by an energy balance model, and the energy deficit calculated for a given climatic cycle. Although the average irradiation changes little during the years 1958-1994, there is a substantial increase in the storage requirement, which seems to be related with an increase in the persistence of low solar radiation values.

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Published date: 2005
Additional Information: Short Communication
Keywords: stand-alone PV system sizing, battery SOC, climate change

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Local EPrints ID: 23632
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/23632
ISSN: 1062-7995
PURE UUID: 1525befb-bf46-44dd-80d2-4f80b8615e53

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Date deposited: 20 Mar 2006
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 06:49

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Author: A. Fragaki
Author: T. Markvart

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