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Grid-Connected System: Simulation parameters

Project : Adelaide
Geographical Site Adelaide RMY Country Australia

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Situation Latitude -34.95° S Longitude 138.52° E

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Time defined as Solar Time Altitude 2m

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Albedo 0.20
Meteo data: Adelaide RMY ASCII file - Imported

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Simulation variant : Adelaide SOLA9103

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Simulation date 28/04/17 00h56

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Simulation parameters

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Collector Plane Orientation Tilt 25° Azimuth 0°

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Models used Transposition Perez Diffuse Imported

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Horizon Free Horizon

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Near Shadings According to strings Electrical effect 80 %

PV Array Characteristics
PV module Si-poly Model TSM-300 P14A
Original PVsyst database Manufacturer Trina Solar
Number of PV modules In series 20 modules In parallel 1660 strings
Total number of PV modules Nb. modules 33200 Unit Nom. Power 300 Wp
Array global power Nominal (STC) 9960 kWp At operating cond. 8947 kWp (50°C)
Array operating characteristics (50°C) U mpp 655 V I mpp 13655 A
Total area Module area 64420 m²

Inverter Model Sunny Central 900CP XT_SOLA9103

Custom parameters definition Manufacturer SMA
Characteristics Operating Voltage 596-850 V Unit Nom. Power 900 kWac
Inverter pack Nb. of inverters 10 units Total Power 9000 kWac

PV Array loss factors

Array Soiling Losses Loss Fraction 3.0 %
Thermal Loss factor Uc (const) 20.0 W/m²K Uv (wind) 0.0 W/m²K / m/s
Wiring Ohmic Loss Global array res. 0.81 mOhm Loss Fraction 1.5 % at STC
Module Quality Loss Loss Fraction -0.8 %
Module Mismatch Losses Loss Fraction 1.0 % at MPP
Incidence effect, ASHRAE parametrization IAM = 1 - bo (1/cos i - 1) bo Param. 0.05

User's needs : Unlimited load (grid)

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Grid-Connected System: Near shading definition

Project : Adelaide
Simulation variant : Adelaide SOLA9103

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Main system parameters System type Grid-Connected

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Near Shadings According to strings Electrical effect 80 %

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PV Field Orientation tilt 25° azimuth 0°
PV modules Model TSM-300 P14A Pnom 300 Wp

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PV Array Nb. of modules 33200 Pnom total 9960 kWp
Inverter Sunny Central 900CP XT_SOLA9103 Pnom 900 kW ac

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Inverter pack Nb. of units 10.0 Pnom total 9000 kW ac

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User's needs Unlimited load (grid)

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Perspective of the PV-field and surrounding shading scene

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Iso-shadings diagram
Adelaide

Beam shading factor (according to strings) : Iso-shadings curves

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Shading loss: 1 % Attenuation for diffuse: 0.027
Shading loss: 5 % 1: 22 june
and albedo: 0.720 2: 22 may - 23 july
Shading loss: 10 %
Shading loss: 20 % 3: 20 apr - 23 aug
12h
Shading loss: 40 % 7 4: 20 mar - 23 sep
13h 5: 21 feb - 23 oct
75 6
6: 19 jan - 22 nov
11h
7: 22 december

14h 5

60 10h

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15h
Sun height [[°]]

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45
3
16h

8h
2
1
30 17h

7h

18h
15
6h

Behind Behind
the plane the plane
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120 90 60 30 0 -30 -60 -90 -120
Azimuth [[°]]

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Grid-Connected System: Main results

Project : Adelaide
Simulation variant : Adelaide SOLA9103

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Main system parameters System type Grid-Connected

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Near Shadings According to strings Electrical effect 80 %

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PV Field Orientation tilt 25° azimuth 0°
PV modules Model TSM-300 P14A Pnom 300 Wp

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PV Array Nb. of modules 33200 Pnom total 9960 kWp
Inverter Sunny Central 900CP XT_SOLA9103 Pnom 900 kW ac

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Inverter pack Nb. of units 10.0 Pnom total 9000 kW ac

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User's needs Unlimited load (grid)

Main simulation results

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System Production Produced Energy 16157 MWh/year Specific prod. 1622 kWh/kWp/year

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Performance Ratio PR 80.73 %

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Normalized productions (per installed kWp): Nominal power 9960 kWp Performance Ratio PR

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10 1.0
PR : Performance Ratio (Yf / Yr) : 0.807
Lc : Collection Loss (PV-array losses) 0.98 kWh/kWp/day
Ls : System Loss (inverter, ...) 0.08 kWh/kWp/day
Yf : Produced useful energy (inverter output) 4.44 kWh/kWp/day

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Normalized Energy [kWh/kWp/day]

Performance Ratio PR

6 0.6

4 0.4

2 0.2

0 0.0
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
year 1990 year 1990

Adelaide SOLA9103
Balances and main results

GlobHor DiffHor T Amb GlobInc GlobEff EArray E_Grid PR

kWh/m² kWh/m² °C kWh/m² kWh/m² MWh MWh
Jan. 90 249.2 59.64 22.88 240.2 223.7 1878 1844 0.771
Feb. 90 195.0 52.75 24.34 202.3 188.1 1576 1549 0.769
Mar. 90 170.7 47.18 21.17 196.2 182.8 1583 1556 0.797
Apr. 90 116.0 42.37 17.25 150.3 139.8 1249 1228 0.820
May 90 83.8 39.16 14.56 117.1 107.8 998 981 0.842
June 90 64.9 31.98 11.60 95.3 87.3 819 805 0.848
July 90 73.5 37.57 11.41 104.5 95.8 902 888 0.853
Aug. 90 97.3 42.95 11.59 126.9 117.7 1096 1077 0.852
Sep. 90 128.9 54.47 13.42 152.2 141.0 1289 1266 0.835
Oct. 90 178.7 63.75 16.31 191.1 177.5 1575 1548 0.813
Nov. 90 210.7 77.27 18.93 208.4 193.4 1689 1659 0.799
Dec. 90 237.1 71.38 21.10 224.9 209.0 1789 1757 0.784

Year 1805.8 620.47 17.00 2009.4 1864.0 16442 16157 0.807

Legends: GlobHor Horizontal global irradiation GlobEff Effective Global, corr. for IAM and shadings
DiffHor Horizontal diffuse irradiation EArray Effective energy at the output of the array
T Amb Ambient Temperature E_Grid Energy injected into grid
GlobInc Global incident in coll. plane PR Performance Ratio

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Grid-Connected System: Loss diagram

Project : Adelaide
Simulation variant : Adelaide SOLA9103

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Main system parameters System type Grid-Connected

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Near Shadings According to strings Electrical effect 80 %

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PV Field Orientation tilt 25° azimuth 0°
PV modules Model TSM-300 P14A Pnom 300 Wp

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PV Array Nb. of modules 33200 Pnom total 9960 kWp
Inverter Sunny Central 900CP XT_SOLA9103 Pnom 900 kW ac

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Inverter pack Nb. of units 10.0 Pnom total 9000 kW ac

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User's needs Unlimited load (grid)

Loss diagram over the whole year

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1806 kWh/m² Horizontal global irradiation
+11.3% Global incident in coll. plane

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-1.7% Near Shadings: irradiance loss
-2.7% IAM factor on global
-3.0% Soiling loss factor

1864 kWh/m² * 64420 m² coll. Effective irradiance on collectors

efficiency at STC = 15.52% PV conversion

18642 MWh Array nominal energy (at STC effic.)

-0.6% PV loss due to irradiance level

-9.8% PV loss due to temperature

-0.2% Shadings: Electrical Loss acc. to strings

+0.7% Module quality loss

-1.0% Module array mismatch loss

-1.1% Ohmic wiring loss
16455 MWh Array virtual energy at MPP

-1.7% Inverter Loss during operation (efficiency)

0.0% Inverter Loss over nominal inv. power
0.0% Inverter Loss due to power threshold
0.0% Inverter Loss over nominal inv. voltage
-0.1% Inverter Loss due to voltage threshold
16157 MWh Available Energy at Inverter Output

16157 MWh Energy injected into grid

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Grid-Connected System: P50 - P90 evaluation

Project : Adelaide
Simulation variant : Adelaide SOLA9103

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Main system parameters System type Grid-Connected

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Near Shadings According to strings Electrical effect 80 %

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PV Field Orientation tilt 25° azimuth 0°
PV modules Model TSM-300 P14A Pnom 300 Wp

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PV Array Nb. of modules 33200 Pnom total 9960 kWp
Inverter Sunny Central 900CP XT_SOLA9103 Pnom 900 kW ac

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Inverter pack Nb. of units 10.0 Pnom total 9000 kW ac

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User's needs Unlimited load (grid)

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Evaluation of the Production probability forecast

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The probability distribution of the system production forecast for different years is mainly dependent

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on the meteo data used for the simulation, and depends on the following choices:
Meteo data source ASCII file

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Meteo data Kind Monthly averages Imported Multi-year average
Specified Deviation Climate change 0.0 %
Year-to-year variability Variance 5.0 %

The probability distribution variance is also depending on some system parameters uncertainties
Specified Deviation PV module modelling/parameters 2.0 %
Inverter efficiency uncertainty 0.5 %
Soiling and mismatch uncertainties 1.0 %
Degradation uncertainty 1.0 %
Global variability (meteo + system) Variance 5.6 % (quadratic sum)

Annual production probability Variability 903 MWh

P50 16157 MWh
P90 14999 MWh
P95 14673 MWh

Probability distribution
0.50
0.45
P50 = 16156.7 MWh
0.40 E_Grid simul = 16156.7 MWh
0.35
Probability

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0.25
0.20
P90 = 14998.6 MWh
0.15
0.10 P95 = 14672.7 MWh
0.05
0.00
13000 14000 15000 16000 17000 18000 19000
E_Grid system production MWh

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