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Modeling and simulation of 15MW grid-connected photovoltaic system using

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 Modeling and Simulation of 15MW Grid -Connected
Photovoltaic System using PVsyst Software
*Adel Soualmia ,** Rachid Chenni
*University ofConstantinel , Faculty ofTechnology department ofElectronic, MODERNA Laboratory.
Constantine25000, Algeria.
**University of Constantinel , Faculty ofTechnology department ofElectrical engineering, MODERNA Laboratory.
Constantine25000, Algeria.
soualmia.adel@yahoo.fr ,rachid .chenni@yahoo.fr.

Abstract- this paper demonstrates a complete modeling and
simulation of 15MW solar photovoltaic grid connected at the site
ofOued Kebrite a town and commune in Souk Ahras Province in
north-eastern Aigeria. PVsyst software package was used to
analyse the performance ratio and the different losses that occur
system supplies the excess power, beyond consumption by the
connected load to the utility grid. The proposed model is
illustrated in figure.1 by the PV syst software.
System Use r ~ o ad}

in the system.

Keywords-Photovoltaic ;Grid-Connected ;Performance

Ratio;losses;PVsyst Software.

I. INTRODUCTION
Electricity is an essential part of oUf way of life. Most of the
electricity is currently provided from the conventional thermal
or hydro power stations. With the growing concern about the
greenhouse gas emission and other environmental issues the
renewable energy technologies such as photovoltaic cells are
increasingly being recommended for electricity production [I]. Figure.I.Schema of grid -connected PV system.
Grid-connected PV systems are the most popular solar electric
system on the market today. Grid-connected systems are IV. SYSTEM SPECIFICATIONS
systems connected to a large independent grid usually the
public electricity grid and feed power directly into the grid. A. Specijication 0/ PV Module Used in The System
These systems are usually employed in decentralized grid-
Model IYL250P.29b Manulaclurer IYingliSolar
connected PV applications and centralized grid-connected [2].
File name IYingtYL250P·29U 015PAN Dala source IManulaclurer 2015
11. G EOGRAPHICAL L OCATION OF THE SITE
11 Originalf'Vs~sl dalabase Prod. Irom 2015

Oued Keberit is a town and commune in Souk Ahras Nom. Power 1250.0 Vip Tollt Jü:OJ1O % Technolo9JI ISi'POly ::J
[aiSTC)
Province in north-eastern Aigeria [3].It is located at latitude

rr-- 'cl1
35°55'28» north and longitude 7°55'1" East . The temperature Manulaclurer . pecilicalion. or olher Mea.uremenl. Model .ummary

ranges from 22.9Co to 26.3Co in the summer and reaches to as Relerence conditions: GRel J1000 VlM TRel
Main parameters
R .hunl
11
225 ohm
low IO.2Co in the winter .This provides an ideal environment Shorl·circuil currenl Isc IS837 A OpencircuilVoc P7.73 V Rsh[G=O) 734 ohm
for any Photovoltaic power plant projects [4].Therefore, it is a Max Power Point: Impp J81i1 A Vmpp po23 V R.erie model 0.37 ohm
perfect location for irnplementing the PV power plant for OUf Temperalure coellieienl mul,e ~ mA/'C
R serie max. 0.41 ohm
Nb cell. 60 in series Rserie apparent 0.54 ohm
study. or mulse 10.042 %/'C
Model parameIers
III. DESCRlPTION OF THE SOLAR PV-GRlD SYSTEM Gamma 0.964
Inlernal model re. uU 1001
10Rei 0.08 nA
A grid-connected PV system consists of solar panels, Operaling condilion, GOper 11000 :J VlM TOper Ji5:J'C 11 muVoc -127 mVr C
inverters, apower conditioning unit and grid connection Max Power Point: Pmpp 250.0 VI 11 Temper coe" . -0.42 %/'C
muPMax li,ed -0.42 rc

equipment. It has effective utilization of power that is Currenllmpp 8.28 A Vollage Vmpp 30.2 V
generated from solar energy as there are no energy storage Shorl·circuil currenl lsc 8.84 A Open circuilVoc 37.7 V
Elliciency I Cells area 17.13 % I Modulearea 15.40 %
losses. When conditions are right, the grid-connected PV
Figure.2.Charecteristics of PV modul e used in the s ystem.

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B. Inclination and Orientation D. System Components Summary
PV panels are optimized for the best orientation
according to solar path in Oued kebrit figure .3 to gain The equipments used to construct the grid connected PV
maximum solar irradiation and the result is that the tilt system for our case study described above are summarized
angle is 35° and Azimuth angle is 0° figure .5. with some details and specifications in figure .6. A total of
60060 poly crystalline modules , 2730 strings in parallel and
22 modules in series to generate 15000 KWp of power. The
12h
area required for fixing the panels is 97513 m2 • The annual
energy ofthe system is 23735MWh/year [5] .

~ Gridsystem defin~ion, Variant "15MN"

Global System conliguration------, Global systemusmmary- - - - - - - - -

15J NumberolkUlds olsub.arrays Nb. 01 modules 300300 Nominal PlI Pow~ 15075 k\lip
Modulearea 481561 rri Maximum PlI Power 72567 k\lidc
.1l ~ Simplilied Schema I Nb.olinverl~s 150 Nominal AC Pow~ 75000 k\liac

-90 ..,0 -30 30 60 90 120

A .... ;.... .. ... ""
Figure.3.Solar path
Tilt 35°
rr =·n
Sub·anay name and Orientation'- - - - - PresizingHelp'- - - - - - - - - ,
Azimuth 0°
Name Sub.arrayU1
I r NoSizing Enlerplannedpowerr. 1150000 k\lip.

Oriert FiKed Tilted Plane

lill 35' ~, I . . or availablearea rj9ii""" rri
,L W est Eas t
Azimulh 0' JJ

I
So ut h
SelectthePVmodule- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ,
AvailableNow .:J Appro~ neededmodwes 60000

Iy~g~ Solar ~ J150INpm Si·pol~ Yl150p·l% S~eel015 Manulaclurd] ~ Open I

Sizing vloages: V
mpp [W'C) 25.7 V
rUseOplimizer
0.8
Voe[·10'C) 42.1 V
0 . 6 L..o........L..........J.~...L..........L._L.........J
30 60 90 -90 -60 -30 0 30 60 90
Plan e Ti ~ Plane orientation Selecllheinverter- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ,
~ 50Hz
Figure.4.Tnclination and orientation ofPV modules used in the system IAva~able Now ~ ~ 60Hz
C. Inverter 18Wj'anEleclric .:J Jr500-k\li~450-.82-0V-Il~50-Hz~IC-500-KH~~~~Sin-ce2-014---'] ~ Open I
This study uses 30 units of 500 KW to get a total of 15MW
figure.5 .The output is set to 400V at 50HZ for grid Nb.d ~verlers roJr OperalingVoQage 450·820 V Globallnverler'spower 15000 kINae
Inpul maximum volage 1000 V
compatibility in Algeria [4].
700 _ -......- -_ _ ""1""_......,-_.....__ Design the anay
iNumber 01 modulesand shings Operalingconrnlions
600
~~ VmppI6O'C) 565 V

r J~
SOO j.........~~~~.:....;
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so~ o .:.:.;
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,"'I J I ~

Vmpp [20T) 6/j V

Mod.~ series belween 18 and 13
--. NO m~ r tur r ulr mcn I tlou ~nom
piiJ r O~J~11ibili~2727
Voc 1·10T] 926 V
1

Nbreslrngs
r
~
:lifle"-IIC\.I rLiI lIlI:Io ,".ellel Planeirrarnaoce 1000 \lilrrf Max.indala r. SIC
Overloadlo!s m Impp [SIC) 11603 A Max.operalingpower 13417 k\li
i Showsizing].1 Isc ISIC] 24378A al1 000 INIrri and 5O'C]
Pnomralio 1.00

Nb. modules 60060 Area 97513 rri IselalSIC) 24125A Anay nom. PoweriSTC] 15015 k\lip
so
11

)0
Te m ~eratu rfl l·OI
Figure.6.Global system configuration
Figure.5.Nominal power ofinverter used in the system.
 V. RESULTS AND D1SSCUSSION yield (i.e. annual production of electricity delivered at AC) and
the target yield (Eq. l):
Figure .7 depicts the current and voltage generated from the
photovoltaic array for a day which the current is 85084Ah/day,
the average voltage is 254.3 V and .the effective energy at the
output ofthe array is 55370KWh/day.
(1)

Effective energy at the output of the array ,553 70 KWhfday Figure .9 is a graphical representation of the Performance
ArrayCurrent, 85084Ahlday
ArrayYoltage, Aver=254.3Y Ratio of the incident energy for each month of the year. The
average ratio is 0.839.

PR : Perfonnance ratio (YflYr) : 0 .893

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,...
"r:;; o
o
p..,

400G0

0000

o
olm M I um 11/01 31101 )1101

Figure.7. Current, voltage and energy output generated by the photovoltaic

array.

Figure. 8 shows the daily system output energy generated

from our system for a day which the energy injected to the grid Figure.9.performance ratio PR (YflYr)
is 541 88KWh/day.
Our PV system's nominal power output is 15015 KW. Due to
various factors such as site location and system losses. The
Energy injected into grid 5, 4 l 88l\.'"\Vhlday power capacity ofthe system is reduced figure.lO.

Lc : CoUectiOD LOI> (p\'·Arny 10m.) O.7'II.'VhlJl.lVJllday

L. : Sp!... loll(lDw ter... ) O.09 I1.·WhlJl.lVplday
VI : produ,ed u.lfui mergy(iDm1oro ntpnt) 4.33 I1.'VhlIl.'Vpldo)·

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"
ii"
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o
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Figure.8.Energy injected to the grid Figure .10.Monthly nominal power graph for 15015 KW system

Figure.ll. Represents the total energy output throughout the

Performance ratio is important in determining the quality of year which is 4.3 kWh/day, collection loss which is 0.75
the systems, The Performance Ratio is the ratio between actual KWh/day and system or inverter losses which is 0.09 KWh/day
[6].
 inverter loss reach 2%. The horizontal global irradiance is 1692
LcC.lI«tiloL""(l'\"·.\!nrl"le) ~.l5K11U'\"p'or
LI :$)'IfIIIIloII (ilmr...) U91,\\\01;.'\\'fdlr KW/m2 and the effective irradiance on collectors is 1834
l'f ; p~,!Id .ntli tllII,I' (ja'1l1lnvtp,O tl3 K1IlIKWP!~r KWh/m2 .The energy injected into grid is 23735Mwh with the
efficiency ofthe system equal to 15.4%.

1692 K W ILlm1
Norm.lUed global irradi.tion

Glob.1 inddenl in eoil.pl.ne

L·\ M f.e.loronglob.1
"'0
~
N EffeetiH in diane,e on oUo<
e. 10 ..
"'i Effici"""y . t srC~ 1 5 . 40 S6
PV conv ersion
E
...
o 27536MWh Array no min.1 energy ('1 STC effie)
Z
,* ...
-1l.1S6
Array loss ... (femp,Mod, Qu.I,Mism , Res)
Figure 11. Energy output throughout year. 24116MWh
Arra~' vi rlu.lenergy .1. MPP

Table L shows the balances and main results of Grid -2 .0S6

+ Glo bai inverter ] OSSe5
2373 5MWh
connected PV system. Yearly global horizontal irradiation is 23735MWh
A\'ail.bleEnergy .I inverler OutpUI

169l.8 KWh/m 2 . The yearly global incident energy on the Energy injeeled inlo g ri d
collector plane is 1855.1KWh/m2 .Energy available at the
output ofthe PV array is 24215523 KWh. The energy injected
Figure .12.loss diagram ofthe system over the year.
into the grid is 23734872 KWh. The EffArrR is the efficiency
ofthe PV array/rough area and the yearly average efficiency is
13.17 %. The yearly average efficiency ofthe system is 13.7 VI. CONCLUSION
%. The average ambient temperature is 17.23 0 C [7].
In this work a 15MW photovoltaic grid-connected system
TABLE I. BALANC ES AND MAIN REs ULTS situated in the site of Oued Kebrite Souk Ahras in Aigeria, was
modeled and simulated in PV syst software to evaluate the
energy performance. The results show that the maximum solar
GlobHor TAmb Globine GlobEn EAnay E.Grid EllArrR EIISYIR irradiation was achieved at a tilt angle of 35° with a value of
1834KW/m. Furthermore, the system is composed of 60060
k\Yhlnf 'C k\Yhlnf kWhlnt kWh kWh % % solar panels of 250W and 30 inverters of 500KW. The energy
14,21 production was 23735MWh/year with a performance ratio of
JanualY 76,9 6.40 i23.9 lro9 1716465 1679928 13,91
83 .9%. This shows that Oued Kabrite has great potential for
FeblualY 94,9 8,11) 134,2 m2 1811005 1772767 1184 13,55 solar energy utilization due to its strategie location.
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