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Definition of a geographical site

Geographical Site Chennai Country India
File Chennai_MN73.SIT of 29/09/20 12h09

Situation Latitude 13.09° N Longitude 80.28° E

Time defined as Legal Time Time zone UT+5.5 Altitude 33 m

Monthly Meteo Values Source Meteonorm 7.3 (1981-2010)

PVsyst TRIAL
Horizontal global
Horizontal diffuse
Extraterrestrial
Clearness Index
Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May June July Aug.

4.82 5.87 6.33 6.47 6.21 5.65 5.20 5.23 5.36 4.43 3.83 3.99 5.28 kWh/m²/day
2.17 2.10 2.46 2.76 2.88 3.00 2.74 3.01 2.63 2.48 2.13 2.10 2.54 kWh/m²/day
8.50 9.35 10.11 10.56 10.61 10.52 10.52 10.52 10.25 9.58 8.71 8.21 9.79 kWh/m²/day
0.567 0.628 0.626 0.612 0.585 0.537 0.495 0.497 0.523 0.463 0.440 0.486 0.539 ratio
Sep. Oct. Nov. Dec. Year

Ambient Temper. 25.0 26.1 28.0 29.7 31.9 30.8 30.5 29.5 28.8 27.4 25.6 24.8 28.2 °C
Wind Velocity 1.8 2.0 2.4 2.9 3.5 3.5 3.2 3.2 2.5 1.5 1.6 1.9 2.5 m/s

Solar paths at Chennai, (Lat. 13.0878° N, long. 80.2785° E, alt. 33 m) - Legal Time

PVsyst TRIAL North

1: 22 june
2: 22 may - 23 july
3: 20 apr - 23 aug
4: 20 mar - 23 sep
5: 21 feb - 23 oct
6: 19 jan - 22 nov
7: 22 december

PVsyst TRIAL 7h

8h
9h
10h
11h 1
14h
15h
16h
17h

East West
3

PVsyst TRIAL
5

6
7

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Grid system presizing

Geographical Site Chennai Country India
Situation Latitude 13.09° N Longitude 80.28° E
Time defined as Legal Time Time zone UT+5.5 Altitude 33 m
Collector Plane Orientation Tilt 13° Azimuth 0°

PV-field installation main features

PVsyst TRIAL
Module type Standard
Technology Monocrystalline cells
Mounting method Facade or tilted roof
Back ventilation properties Free air circulation

System characteristics and pre-sizing evaluation

PV-field nominal power (STC) Pnom 0.4 kWp
Collector area Acoll 3 m²
Annual energy yield Eyear 0.72 MWh Specific yield 1657 kWh/kWp
Economic gross evaluation Investment 183932 INR Energy price 19.02 INR/kWh

Meteo and incident energy System output

PVsyst TRIAL 8

6
Global horizontal 5.3 kWh/m²/day
Global on tilted plane 5.4 kWh/m²/day
3.0

2.5
System output energy 724 kWh/year
[kWh/m²/day]

2.0
[kWh/day]

4 1.5
energy
Irradiation

3
1.0

0.5
1

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

PVsyst TRIAL Jan.

Feb.
Horizontal global

kWh/m²/day

4.82

5.87
Coll. plane

kWh/m²/day

5.46

6.44
System output

kWh/day

2.00

2.37
System output

kWh

62

66

Mar. 6.33 6.59 2.42 75

Apr. 6.47 6.39 2.35 70

May 6.21 5.89 2.16 67

June 5.65 5.27 1.93 58

July 5.20 4.90 1.80 56

Aug. 5.23 5.07 1.86 58

PVsyst TRIAL
Sep. 5.36 5.45 2.00 60

Oct. 4.43 4.70 1.73 53

Nov. 3.83 4.23 1.55 47

Dec. 3.99 4.52 1.66 51

Year 5.28 5.40 1.98 724

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Stand-alone system presizing

Geographical Site Chennai Country India
Situation Latitude 13.09° N Longitude 80.28° E
Time defined as Legal Time Time zone UT+5.5 Altitude 33 m
Collector Plane Orientation Tilt 30° Azimuth 0°

System pre-sizing evaluation

PVsyst TRIAL
Average use of energy Daily 1.6 kWh/day Yearly 584 kWh
Autonomy 1.0 days
Loss-of-Load Time fraction 9.9 % Missing energy 19 kWh
Battery system Voltage 12 V Capacity 157 Ah
PV array Nominal power 437 Wp Nominal Current 28 A
Economic gross evaluation Investment 323648 INR Energy price 38.63 INR/kWh

PV energy yield and user's needs Battery SOC and Loss-of-Load Probability

3.0 120
Available Solar Energy 1.8 kWh/day Average State of Charge of Batteries 70.6 %
User's needs 1.6 kWh/day Probability of "Loss of Load" 70.6 %
2.5 100

PVsyst TRIAL
2.0 80
[kWh/day]

1.5 60
energy

1.0 40

0.5 20

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

incident PV avail. Demand Excess Missing SOC Pr. LOL Fuel

kWh/m²/day kWh kWh kWh kWh % % liter

PVsyst TRIAL
Jan. 6.0 64.5 49.6 13.8 0.0 97 0.0 0.0

Feb. 6.8 66.3 44.8 20.7 0.0 99 0.0 0.0

Mar. 6.5 70.6 49.6 20.7 0.9 90 5.7 0.6

Apr. 5.9 61.7 48.0 14.1 0.0 89 0.0 0.0

May 5.1 55.6 49.6 3.2 0.0 79 0.0 0.0

June 4.5 47.1 48.0 0.0 0.9 50 6.8 0.6

July 4.2 45.8 49.6 0.0 5.4 36 27.8 3.6

Aug. 4.6 49.7 49.6 0.7 1.7 54 20.4 1.1

Sep. 5.2 54.9 48.0 4.1 0.0 75 3.8 0.0

Oct. 4.8 51.7 49.6 2.9 1.2 60 7.7 0.8

Nov. 4.5 47.2 48.0 1.3 3.2 55 13.7 2.2

PVsyst TRIAL
Dec. 4.9 53.5 49.6 5.9 5.2 65 32.0 3.5

Year 5.2 668.6 584.4 87.4 18.6 71 9.9 12.4

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