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Grid-Connected System: Simulation parameters

Project : final lbrough with 40MWH with 176 area 22
Geographical Site Lufbra Country United Kingdom
Situation Latitude 52.76° N Longitude -1.26° W
Time defined as Legal Time Time zone UT Altitude 77 m
Albedo 0.20
Meteo data: Loughborough Custom file - Imported

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Simulation variant :

Simulation parameters
Collector Plane Orientation
New simulation variant with 40MWH with finalllll 100kw inverter
Simulation date

System type
Tilt
17/05/20 19h11

Sheds on ground
30° Azimuth 0°
Sheds configuration Nb. of sheds 7373 Identical arrays
Sheds spacing 2.20 m Collector width 1.04 m
Shading limit angle Limit profile angle 21.9° Ground cov. Ratio (GCR) 47.5 %

Models used Transposition Perez Diffuse Perez, Meteonorm

Horizon Free Horizon

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Near Shadings
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PV Array Characteristics
PV module Si-mono
Linear shadings
Unlimited load (grid)

Model LG 400 N2T-A5

Original PVsyst database Manufacturer LG Electronics
Number of PV modules In series 13 modules In parallel 8654 strings
Total number of PV modules Nb. modules 112502 Unit Nom. Power 400 Wp
Array global power Nominal (STC) 45001 kWp At operating cond. 41169 kWp (50°C)
Array operating characteristics (50°C) U mpp 489 V I mpp 84213 A
Total area Module area 237777 m² Cell area 209227 m²

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Inverter Model AGILO 100.0-3 Outdoor
Original PVsyst database Manufacturer Fronius International
Characteristics Operating Voltage 460-820 V Unit Nom. Power 100 kWac
Inverter pack Nb. of inverters 367 units Total Power 36700 kWac
Pnom ratio 1.23

PV Array loss factors

Thermal Loss factor Uc (const) 20.0 W/m²K Uv (wind) 0.0 W/m²K / m/s
Wiring Ohmic Loss Global array res. 0.096 mOhm Loss Fraction 1.5 % at STC
Module Quality Loss Loss Fraction -0.8 %
Module Mismatch Losses Loss Fraction 1.0 % at MPP
Strings Mismatch loss Loss Fraction 0.10 %

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Incidence effect (IAM): Fresnel AR coating, n(glass)=1.526, n(AR)=1.290
0° 30° 50° 60° 70° 75° 80° 85° 90°
1.000 0.999 0.987 0.962 0.892 0.816 0.681 0.440 0.000

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Grid-Connected System: Near shading definition

Project : final lbrough with 40MWH with 176 area 22
Simulation variant : New simulation variant with 40MWH with finalllll 100kw inverter
Main system parameters System type Sheds on ground
Near Shadings Linear shadings
PV Field Orientation tilt 30° azimuth 0°
PV modules Model LG 400 N2T-A5 Pnom 400 Wp

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PV Array Nb. of modules 112502 Pnom total 45001 kWp
Inverter Model AGILO 100.0-3 Outdoor Pnom 100 kW ac
Inverter pack Nb. of units 367.0 Pnom total 36700 kW ac
User's needs Unlimited load (grid)

Perspective of the PV-field and surrounding shading scene

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Shading loss: 5 %
Shading loss: 10 %
Shading loss: 20 %
Iso-shadings diagram
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Beam shading factor (linear calculation) : Iso-shadings curves

Shading loss: 1 % Attenuation for diffuse: 0.051

and albedo: 0.812
1: 22 june
2: 22 may - 23 july
3: 20 apr - 23 aug
4: 20 mar - 23 sep
Shading loss: 40 %
5: 21 feb - 23 oct
6: 19 jan - 22 nov
12h 7: 22 december
11h 1 13h
60
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10h
Sun height [[°]]

3 15h
9h
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30 17h
7h
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18h
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15 7 19h
5h

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 : final lbrough with 40MWH with 176 area 22
Simulation variant : New simulation variant with 40MWH with finalllll 100kw inverter
Main system parameters System type Sheds on ground
Near Shadings Linear shadings
PV Field Orientation tilt 30° azimuth 0°
PV modules Model LG 400 N2T-A5 Pnom 400 Wp

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PV Array Nb. of modules 112502 Pnom total 45001 kWp
Inverter Model AGILO 100.0-3 Outdoor Pnom 100 kW ac
Inverter pack Nb. of units 367.0 Pnom total 36700 kW ac
User's needs Unlimited load (grid)

Main simulation results

System Production Produced Energy 47762 MWh/year Specific prod. 1061 kWh/kWp/year
Performance Ratio PR 85.43 %

Normalized productions (per installed kWp): Nominal power 45001 kWp Performance Ratio PR

7 1.0
Lc : Collection Loss (PV-array losses) 0.38 kWh/kWp/day PR : Performance Ratio (Yf / Yr) : 0.854
0.9
Ls : System Loss (inverter, ...) 0.11 kWh/kWp/day
6
Yf : Produced useful energy (inverter output) 2.91 kWh/kWp/day
0.8
[kWh/kWp/day]

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5 0.7
Performance Ratio PR

0.6
4
Energy

0.5

3
0.4
Normalized

2 0.3

0.2
1
0.1

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 2019 year 2019

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Feb.
19
19
GlobHor
kWh/m²

22.8
49.2
DiffHor
kWh/m²

15.93
25.42
Balances and main results

T_Amb
°C

4.42
6.75
GlobInc
kWh/m²

37.5
80.2
GlobEff
kWh/m²

31.3
73.6
EArray
MWh

1429
3255
E_Grid
MWh

1362
3138
PR

0.807
0.869
Mar. 19 85.0 44.59 8.09 112.2 106.2 4638 4469 0.885
Apr. 19 125.2 64.15 8.50 146.3 138.2 5948 5735 0.871
May 19 155.3 76.29 11.30 163.2 153.5 6533 6295 0.857
June 19 131.4 77.41 14.24 131.3 122.5 5219 5023 0.850
July 19 151.5 81.01 17.81 156.2 146.7 6119 5898 0.839
Aug. 19 138.0 75.15 17.54 154.2 145.1 6105 5891 0.849
Sep. 19 97.1 51.71 14.27 121.8 115.0 4918 4744 0.865
Oct. 19 50.4 31.14 9.98 71.1 66.2 2912 2797 0.874

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Nov. 19 21.9 15.98 6.49 32.7 28.5 1279 1215 0.825
Dec. 19 18.9 12.89 6.01 35.5 27.6 1254 1194 0.748

Year 1046.5 571.67 10.48 1242.4 1154.5 49610 47762 0.854

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 T amb. E_Grid Energy injected into grid
GlobInc Global incident in coll. plane PR Performance Ratio

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Grid-Connected System: Special graphs

Project : final lbrough with 40MWH with 176 area 22
Simulation variant : New simulation variant with 40MWH with finalllll 100kw inverter
Main system parameters System type Sheds on ground
Near Shadings Linear shadings
PV Field Orientation tilt 30° azimuth 0°
PV modules Model LG 400 N2T-A5 Pnom 400 Wp

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PV Array Nb. of modules 112502 Pnom total 45001 kWp
Inverter Model AGILO 100.0-3 Outdoor Pnom 100 kW ac
Inverter pack Nb. of units 367.0 Pnom total 36700 kW ac
User's needs Unlimited load (grid)

Daily Input/Output diagram

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Values from 01/01/19 to 31/12/19
300000
[kWh/day]

250000

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200000
into

150000
injected

100000
Energy

50000

0
0 2 4 6 8 10
Global incident in coll. plane [kWh/m².day]

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1400000
System Output Power Distribution

Values from 01/01/19 to 31/12/19

Bin]

1200000
/
[kWh

1000000
grid

800000
into
injected

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Energy

400000

200000

0
0 10000 20000 30000 40000
Power injected into grid [kW]

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Grid-Connected System: Loss diagram

Project : final lbrough with 40MWH with 176 area 22
Simulation variant : New simulation variant with 40MWH with finalllll 100kw inverter
Main system parameters System type Sheds on ground
Near Shadings Linear shadings
PV Field Orientation tilt 30° azimuth 0°
PV modules Model LG 400 N2T-A5 Pnom 400 Wp

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PV Array Nb. of modules 112502 Pnom total 45001 kWp
Inverter Model AGILO 100.0-3 Outdoor Pnom 100 kW ac
Inverter pack Nb. of units 367.0 Pnom total 36700 kW ac
User's needs Unlimited load (grid)

Loss diagram over the whole year

1047 kWh/m² Horizontal global irradiation

+18.7% Global incident in coll. plane

-0.09% Global incident below threshold

-4.74% Near Shadings: irradiance loss

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efficiency at STC = 19.03%

52246 MWh
-2.45%

-0.46%
IAM factor on global

Effective irradiation on collectors

PV conversion

Array nominal energy (at STC effic.)

PV loss due to irradiance level
-3.34% PV loss due to temperature
+0.75% Module quality loss

-1.10% Mismatch loss, modules and strings

-0.80% Ohmic wiring loss
49688 MWh Array virtual energy at MPP

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-3.71% Inverter Loss during operation (efficiency)
-0.16% Inverter Loss over nominal inv. power
0.00% Inverter Loss due to max. input current
0.00% Inverter Loss over nominal inv. voltage
-0.01% Inverter Loss due to power threshold
0.00% Inverter Loss due to voltage threshold
47762 MWh Available Energy at Inverter Output
47762 MWh Energy injected into grid

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