Journal
RENEWABLE ENERGY
Volume 83, Issue -, Pages 294-304Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2015.04.041
Keywords
Electrical simulation; Energy yield; Masking; Photovoltaic (PV) plant; Shading; Solar irradiance
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In this paper, an automated tool for the evaluation of I-V characteristics and energy yield of photovoltaic (PV) plants is proposed. The tool translates an AutoCAD drawing of the plant and surrounding obstacles into an in-house Matlab code that automatically generates an equivalent circuit representing the system, which is in turn solved by PSPICE. The plant is described at a high-granularity single-cell level, so that also the non-intuitive influence of small-area shadows can be accurately predicted. Nevertheless, the robust PSPICE engine ensures short simulation times. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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