Performance analysis and neural modelling of a greenhouse integrated photovoltaic system

J. Pérez-Alonso, M. Pérez-García, M. Pasamontes-Romera and A.J. Callejón-Ferre

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2012, vol. 16, issue 7, 4675-4685

Abstract: In the modern agriculture, greenhouses are well established as technological solutions aimed to increase plants productivity and crops quality. Greenhouses can include added capabilities for the energy generation by the integration of photovoltaic solar modules in their cladding areas provided that the blocking effect of photosynthetically active radiation is not significant for plants growing. After a comprehensive literature survey on the integration of photovoltaic systems in greenhouses, this work describes the results of an experience carried out at Almería (South Eastern Spain), where it has been built and monitored a 1.024m2 pilot photovoltaic greenhouse. The experimental set up has consisted of a greenhouse roof 9.79% coverage ratio by means of 24 flexible thin film modules, installed in two different checkerboard configurations. The obtained results indicate that, for the conditions of the undertaken experiment, the yearly electricity production normalised to the greenhouse ground surface is 8.25kWhm−2, concordant to previous findings for the used type of modules. In addition to this, an artificial neural network model has been elaborated to predict the electricity instantaneous production of the system, showing the suitability of this modelling technique for complex and non linear systems, as it is the case of the constructively integrated PV plants, either in greenhouses and buildings, where both impinging radiation and system configuration are highly constrained by the pre-existing structures.

Keywords: Greenhouse; Thin film modules; Artificial neural network (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2012.04.002

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