New Monitoring System for Photovoltaic Power Plants’ Management

Václav Beránek, Tomáš Olšan, Martin Libra, Vladislav Poulek, Jan Sedláček, Minh-Quan Dang and Igor I. Tyukhov
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Václav Beránek: Solarmonitoring, Ltd., 14700 Prague, Czech Republic
Tomáš Olšan: Department of Physics, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Kamycka 129, 16500 Prague, Czech Republic
Martin Libra: Department of Physics, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Kamycka 129, 16500 Prague, Czech Republic
Vladislav Poulek: Department of Physics, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Kamycka 129, 16500 Prague, Czech Republic
Jan Sedláček: Department of Physics, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Kamycka 129, 16500 Prague, Czech Republic
Minh-Quan Dang: Department of Physics, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Kamycka 129, 16500 Prague, Czech Republic
Igor I. Tyukhov: Department of Mechanical Engineering, San Jose State University, One Washington Square, San Jose, CA 95192-0087, USA

Energies, 2018, vol. 11, issue 10, 1-13

Abstract: An innovative solar monitoring system has been developed. The system aimed at measuring the main parameters and characteristics of solar plants; collecting, diagnosing and processing data. The system communicates with the inverters, electrometers, metrological equipment and additional components of the photovoltaic arrays. The developed and constructed long working system is built on special data collecting technologies. At the generating plants, a special data logger BBbox is installed. The new monitoring system has been used to follow 65 solar plants in the Czech Republic and elsewhere for 175 MWp. As an example, we have selected 13 PV plants in this paper that are at least seven years old. The monitoring system contributes to quality management of plants, and it also provides data for scientific purposes. Production of electricity in the built PV plants reflects the expected values according to internationally used software PVGIS (version 5) during the previous seven years of operation. A comparison of important system parameters clearly shows the new solutions and benefits of the new Solarmon-2.0 monitoring system. Secured communications will increase data protection. A higher frequency of data saving allows higher accuracy of the mathematical models.

Keywords: solar monitoring system; photovoltaic array; energy management (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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