Dynamic Reconfiguration Systems for PV Plant: Technical and Economic Analysis

Giuseppe Schettino, Filippo Pellitteri, Guido Ala, Rosario Miceli, Pietro Romano and Fabio Viola
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Giuseppe Schettino: Department of Engineering, University of Palermo, 90128 Palermo, Italy
Filippo Pellitteri: Department of Engineering, University of Palermo, 90128 Palermo, Italy
Guido Ala: Department of Engineering, University of Palermo, 90128 Palermo, Italy
Rosario Miceli: Department of Engineering, University of Palermo, 90128 Palermo, Italy
Pietro Romano: Department of Engineering, University of Palermo, 90128 Palermo, Italy
Fabio Viola: Department of Engineering, University of Palermo, 90128 Palermo, Italy

Energies, 2020, vol. 13, issue 8, 1-21

Abstract: Solar plants suffer of partial shading and mismatch problems. Without considering the generation of hot spots and the resulting security issues, a monitoring system for the health of a PV plant should be useful to drive a dynamic reconfiguration system (DRS) to solve bottlenecks due to different panels’ shading. Over the years different DRS architectures have been proposed, but no suggestions about costs and benefits have been provided. Starting from technical subjects such as differences of the topologies driving the hardware complexity and number of components, this paper identifies the cost of DRS and its lifetime, and based on these issues it provides an economic analysis for a 6 kWp PV plant in different European Union countries, in which the dissimilar incentive policies have been considered.

Keywords: energy policies related to PV power plants; economic analyses; monitoring and case studies (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: 2020
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