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Grid-Connected System: Simulation parameters

Project : final lbrough with 45mw finllllll
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
New simulation variant with 45MWH with finalllll 100kw inverter linear
shading
Simulation date

System type
30/08/20 08h58

Sheds on ground
Collector Plane Orientation Tilt 42° Azimuth 0°
Sheds configuration Nb. of sheds 6389 Identical arrays
Sheds spacing 2.20 m Collector width 1.04 m
Shading limit angle Limit profile angle 25.9° Ground cov. Ratio (GCR) 47.1 %

Models used Transposition Perez Diffuse Perez, Meteonorm

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Horizon
Near Shadings
User's needs :

PV Array Characteristics
Free Horizon
Linear shadings
Unlimited load (grid)

PV module Si-mono Model LG 360 Q1C-A5

Original PVsyst database Manufacturer LG Electronics
Number of PV modules In series 20 modules In parallel 6250 strings
Total number of PV modules Nb. modules 125000 Unit Nom. Power 360 Wp
Array global power Nominal (STC) 45000 kWp At operating cond. 41693 kWp (50°C)
Array operating characteristics (50°C) U mpp 671 V I mpp 62134 A
Total area Module area 215900 m² Cell area 193725 m²

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Inverter
Original PVsyst database
Characteristics
Inverter pack
Model
Manufacturer
Operating Voltage
Nb. of inverters
AGILO 100.0-3 Outdoor
Fronius International
460-820 V
375 units
Unit Nom. Power
Total Power
Pnom ratio
100 kWac
37500 kWac
1.20

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. 0.18 mOhm Loss Fraction 1.5 % at STC
Module Quality Loss Loss Fraction -0.8 %
Module Mismatch Losses Loss Fraction 1.0 % at MPP

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Strings Mismatch loss Loss Fraction 0.10 %
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

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Simulation variant : New simulation variant with 45MWH with finalllll 100kw inverter linear
shading
Main system parameters System type Sheds on ground
Near Shadings Linear shadings
PV Field Orientation tilt 42° azimuth 0°

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PV modules Model LG 360 Q1C-A5 Pnom 360 Wp
PV Array Nb. of modules 125000 Pnom total 45000 kWp
Inverter Model AGILO 100.0-3 Outdoor Pnom 100 kW ac
Inverter pack Nb. of units 375.0 Pnom total 37500 kW ac
User's needs Unlimited load (grid)

Perspective of the PV-field and surrounding shading scene

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Shading loss: 1 %
Shading loss: 5 %
Shading loss: 10 %
Iso-shadings diagram
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Beam shading factor (linear calculation) : Iso-shadings curves

Attenuation for diffuse: 0.087

and albedo: 0.850
1: 22 june
2: 22 may - 23 july
3: 20 apr - 23 aug
75 Shading loss: 20 %
4: 20 mar - 23 sep
Shading loss: 40 %
5: 21 feb - 23 oct
6: 19 jan - 22 nov
7: 22 december
12h
60 11h 1 13h
2
14h
10h
[[°]]

3 15h
height

45 9h

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16h
8h 4

30 17h
7h
5

18h
6h
6
15 7
19h
5h

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

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Grid-Connected System: Main results

Project : final lbrough with 45mw finllllll
Simulation variant : New simulation variant with 45MWH with finalllll 100kw inverter linear
shading
Main system parameters System type Sheds on ground
Near Shadings Linear shadings
PV Field Orientation tilt 42° azimuth 0°

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PV modules Model LG 360 Q1C-A5 Pnom 360 Wp
PV Array Nb. of modules 125000 Pnom total 45000 kWp
Inverter Model AGILO 100.0-3 Outdoor Pnom 100 kW ac
Inverter pack Nb. of units 375.0 Pnom total 37500 kW ac
User's needs Unlimited load (grid)

Main simulation results

System Production Produced Energy 45028 MWh/year Specific prod. 1001 kWh/kWp/year
Performance Ratio PR 79.80 %

Normalized productions (per installed kWp): Nominal power 45000 kWp Performance Ratio PR

6 1.0
Lc : Collection Loss (PV-array losses) 0.57 kWh/kWp/day PR : Performance Ratio (Yf / Yr) : 0.798
0.9
Ls : System Loss (inverter, ...) 0.12 kWh/kWp/day
5 Yf : Produced useful energy (inverter output) 2.74 kWh/kWp/day

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[kWh/kWp/day]

0.7
4
Performance Ratio PR

0.6
Energy

3 0.5

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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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. 19 22.8 15.93 4.42 41.5 31.4 1369 1292 0.691

Feb. 19 49.2 25.42 6.75 88.1 76.1 3261 3126 0.789
Mar. 19 85.0 44.59 8.09 116.8 108.0 4586 4392 0.836
Apr. 19 125.2 64.15 8.50 146.6 135.1 5687 5453 0.827
May 19 155.3 76.29 11.30 157.7 144.2 6034 5780 0.814
June 19 131.4 77.41 14.24 124.8 112.5 4688 4479 0.798
July 19 151.5 81.01 17.81 149.8 136.3 5592 5357 0.794
Aug. 19 138.0 75.15 17.54 152.2 139.3 5751 5519 0.806
Sep. 19 97.1 51.71 14.27 124.9 115.1 4810 4614 0.821

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Oct. 19 50.4 31.14 9.98 75.6 67.3 2862 2731 0.802
Nov. 19 21.9 15.98 6.49 35.5 28.2 1212 1139 0.713
Dec. 19 18.9 12.89 6.01 40.3 28.1 1215 1146 0.632

Year 1046.5 571.67 10.48 1253.8 1121.7 47066 45028 0.798

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

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Simulation variant : New simulation variant with 45MWH with finalllll 100kw inverter linear
shading
Main system parameters System type Sheds on ground
Near Shadings Linear shadings
PV Field Orientation tilt 42° azimuth 0°

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PV modules Model LG 360 Q1C-A5 Pnom 360 Wp
PV Array Nb. of modules 125000 Pnom total 45000 kWp
Inverter Model AGILO 100.0-3 Outdoor Pnom 100 kW ac
Inverter pack Nb. of units 375.0 Pnom total 37500 kW ac
User's needs Unlimited load (grid)

Daily Input/Output diagram

350000
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

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injected

600000

400000
Energy

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 45mw finllllll
Simulation variant : New simulation variant with 45MWH with finalllll 100kw inverter linear
shading
Main system parameters System type Sheds on ground
Near Shadings Linear shadings
PV Field Orientation tilt 42° azimuth 0°

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PV modules Model LG 360 Q1C-A5 Pnom 360 Wp
PV Array Nb. of modules 125000 Pnom total 45000 kWp
Inverter Model AGILO 100.0-3 Outdoor Pnom 100 kW ac
Inverter pack Nb. of units 375.0 Pnom total 37500 kW ac
User's needs Unlimited load (grid)

Loss diagram over the whole year

1047 kWh/m² Horizontal global irradiation

+19.8% Global incident in coll. plane

-0.09% Global incident below threshold

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-2.34% IAM factor on global

1122 kWh/m² * 215900 m² coll. Effective irradiation on collectors

efficiency at STC = 20.88% PV conversion

50569 MWh Array nominal energy (at STC effic.)

-2.99% PV loss due to irradiance level
-2.75% PV loss due to temperature
+0.75% Module quality loss

-1.10% Mismatch loss, modules and strings

-0.83% Ohmic wiring loss
47145 MWh Array virtual energy at MPP

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-0.18%
0.00%
0.00%
-0.02%
0.00%
Inverter Loss during operation (efficiency)
Inverter Loss over nominal inv. power
Inverter Loss due to max. input current
Inverter Loss over nominal inv. voltage
Inverter Loss due to power threshold
Inverter Loss due to voltage threshold
45028 MWh Available Energy at Inverter Output
45028 MWh Energy injected into grid

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