PVSYST V5.

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Starobesheve
12 MW (1)

Grid-Connected System: Simulation parameters

Project : Starobesheve 12 MW
Geographical Site Starobeshevo Country Ukrainia
Situation Latitude 47.8°N Longitude 38.0°E
Time defined as Legal Time Time zone UT+2 Altitude 118 m
Albedo 0.20
Meteo data : Starobeshevo from PVGIS, Synthetic Hourly data

Simulation variant : New simulation variant

Simulation date 31/05/12 15h33

Simulation parameters
Collector Plane Orientation Tilt 32° Azimuth 0°
5Sheds Pitch 7.70 m Collector width 3.35 m
Inactive band Top 0.00 m Bottom 0.00 m
Shading limit angle Gamma 20.07 ° Occupation Ratio 43.5 %

Horizon Free Horizon

Near Shadings No Shadings

PV Arrays Characteristics (2 kinds of array defined )

PV module Si-poly Model SF 220-30-P240
Manufacturer Hanwha SolarOne
Array#1: Number of PV modules In series 20 modules In parallel 2352 strings
Total number of PV modules Nb. modules 47040 Unit Nom. Power 240 Wp
Array global power Nominal (STC) 11290 kWp At operating cond. 10165 kWp (50°C)
Array operating characteristics (50°C) U mpp 549 V I mpp 18513 A
Array#2: Number of PV modules In series 20 modules In parallel 148 strings
Total number of PV modules Nb. modules 2960 Unit Nom. Power 240 Wp
Array global power Nominal (STC) 710 kWp At operating cond. 640 kWp (50°C)
Array operating characteristics (50°C) U mpp 549 V I mpp 1165 A
Total Arrays global power Nominal (STC) 12000 kWp Total 50000 modules
Module area 82600 mІ

Inverter Model Protect PV 630

Manufacturer AEG Power Solutions GmbH
Operating Voltage 550-820 V Unit Nom. Power 630 kW AC
Array#1: Number of Inverter 16.0 Total Power 10080 kW AC
Array#2: Number of Inverter 1 Total Power 630 kW AC
Total Number of Inverter 17 Total Power 10710 kW AC

PV Array loss factors

Thermal Loss factor Uc (const) 20.0 W/mІK Uv (wind) 0.0 W/mІK / m/s
=> Nominal Oper. Coll. Temp. (G=800 W/mІ, Tamb=20°C, Wind=1 m/s.) NOCT 56 °C
Wiring Ohmic Loss Array#1 0.49 mOhm Loss Fraction 1.5 % at STC
Array#2 7.8 mOhm Loss Fraction 1.5 % at STC
Global Loss Fraction 1.5 % at STC
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Starobesheve
12 MW (1)

Grid-Connected System: Simulation parameters (continued)

Module Quality Loss Loss Fraction 2.5 %
Module Mismatch Losses Loss Fraction 2.0 % at MPP
Incidence effect, ASHRAE parametrization IAM = 1 - bo (1/cos i - 1) bo Parameter 0.05

User's needs : Unlimited load (grid)

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Starobesheve
12 MW (1)

Grid-Connected System: Main results

Project : Starobesheve 12 MW
Simulation variant : New simulation variant

Main system parameters System type Grid-Connected

PV Field Orientation Sheds disposition, tilt 32° azimuth 0°
PV modules Model SF 220-30-P240 Pnom 240 Wp
PV Array Nb. of modules 50000 Pnom total 12000 kWp
Inverter Model Protect PV 630 Pnom 630 kW ac
Inverter pack Nb. of units 17.0 Pnom total 10710 kW ac
User's needs Unlimited load (grid)

Main simulation results

System Production Produced Energy 12438 MWh/year Specific prod. 1037 kWh/kWp/year
Performance Ratio PR 77.3 %

Normalized productions (per installed kWp): Nominal power 12000 kWp Performance Ratio PR
7 1.0
PR : Performance Ratio (Yf / Yr) : 0.773
Lc : Collection Loss (PV-array losses) 0.78 kWh/kWp/day
Ls : System Loss (inverter, ...) 0.05 kWh/kWp/day
Yf : Produced useful energy (inverter output) 2.84 kWh/kWp/day
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Normalized Energy [kWh/kWp/day]

Performance Ratio PR

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Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec

New simulation variant

Balances and main results

GlobHor T Amb GlobInc GlobEff EArray E_Grid EffArrR EffSysR

kWh/mІ °C kWh/mІ kWh/mІ MWh MWh % %
January 27.1 -3.50 39.9 36.4 392 382 11.89 11.60
February 49.3 -2.50 73.1 68.5 750 738 12.43 12.22
March 86.2 2.30 106.6 100.7 1080 1063 12.27 12.07
April 117.9 10.10 129.7 121.9 1263 1242 11.79 11.60
May 165.2 16.00 167.5 157.6 1566 1540 11.32 11.13
June 174.6 20.00 168.9 158.7 1545 1519 11.07 10.89
July 177.6 22.90 175.1 164.7 1558 1530 10.77 10.58
August 157.8 21.80 168.2 158.3 1509 1486 10.86 10.69
September 111.6 16.00 133.3 126.1 1260 1239 11.45 11.26
October 68.5 9.50 97.0 91.4 952 936 11.89 11.69
November 31.8 3.10 47.2 43.1 457 447 11.73 11.48
December 22.0 -2.00 34.2 30.2 324 315 11.45 11.14
Year 1189.6 9.54 1340.6 1257.5 12656 12438 11.43 11.23

Legends: GlobHor Horizontal global 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 EffArrR Effic. Eout array / rough area
GlobEff Effective Global, corr. for IAM and shadings EffSysR Effic. Eout system / rough area
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Starobesheve
12 MW (1)

Grid-Connected System: Loss diagram

Project : Starobesheve 12 MW
Simulation variant : New simulation variant

Main system parameters System type Grid-Connected

PV Field Orientation Sheds disposition, tilt 32° azimuth 0°
PV modules Model SF 220-30-P240 Pnom 240 Wp
PV Array Nb. of modules 50000 Pnom total 12000 kWp
Inverter Model Protect PV 630 Pnom 630 kW ac
Inverter pack Nb. of units 17.0 Pnom total 10710 kW ac
User's needs Unlimited load (grid)

Loss diagram over the whole year

1190 kWh/mІ Horizontal global irradiation

+12.7% Global incident in coll. plane

-3.3% Near Shadings

-3.0% IAM factor on global

1258 kWh/mІ * 82600 mІ coll. Effective irradiance on collectors

efficiency at STC = 14.54% PV conversion

15107 MWh Array nominal energy (at STC effic.)

-5.6% PV loss due to irradiance level

-5.0% PV loss due to temperature

-2.7% Module quality loss

-2.2% Module array mismatch loss
-0.8% Ohmic wiring loss
12800 MWh Array virtual energy at MPP

-1.7% Inverter Loss during operation (efficiency)

0.0% Inverter Loss over nominal inv. power
-0.2% Inverter Loss due to power threshold
0.0% Inverter Loss over nominal inv. voltage
-1.0% Inverter Loss due to voltage threshold
12438 MWh Available Energy at Inverter Output

12438 MWh Energy injected into grid