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Grid-Connected System: Simulation parameters

Project : Grid N13 Motorway Domat/Ems power plant
Geographical Site Chur Country Switzerland
Situation Latitude 46.51° N Longitude 9.32° E
Time defined as Legal Time Time zone UT+1 Altitude 590 m
Albedo 0.20
Meteo data: Chur Meteonorm 7.1 (1991-2010) - Synthetic

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Simulation variant :

Simulation parameters
Collector Plane Orientation
New simulation variant
Simulation date

System type
Tilt
09/12/19 13h19

No 3D scene defined, no shadings

29° Azimuth 0°
Models used Transposition Perez Diffuse Perez, Meteonorm
Horizon Free Horizon
Near Shadings No Shadings
User's needs : Unlimited load (grid)

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PV Array Characteristics
PV module Si-mono Model SYP310M
Original PVsyst database Manufacturer Risen Energy Co., Ltd
Number of PV modules In series 15 modules In parallel 215 strings
Total number of PV modules Nb. modules 3225 Unit Nom. Power 310 Wp
Array global power Nominal (STC) 1000 kWp At operating cond. 890 kWp (50°C)
Array operating characteristics (50°C) U mpp 481 V I mpp 1852 A
Total area Module area 6258 m² Cell area 5511 m²

Inverter Model Sun3Grid 8000

Original PVsyst database Manufacturer Sunset
Characteristics Operating Voltage 350-600 V Unit Nom. Power 8.00 kWac
Inverter pack Nb. of inverters 98 units Total Power 784 kWac

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Pnom ratio 1.28

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. 4.4 mOhm Loss Fraction 1.5 % at STC
Module Quality Loss Loss Fraction -0.8 %
Module Mismatch Losses Loss Fraction 1.0 % at MPP
Strings Mismatch loss Loss Fraction 0.10 %
Incidence effect, ASHRAE parametrization IAM = 1 - bo (1/cos i - 1) bo Param. 0.05

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Grid-Connected System: Main results

Project : Grid N13 Motorway Domat/Ems power plant
Simulation variant : New simulation variant
Main system parameters System type No 3D scene defined, no shadings
PV Field Orientation tilt 29° azimuth 0°
PV modules Model SYP310M Pnom 310 Wp
PV Array Nb. of modules 3225 Pnom total 1000 kWp
Inverter Model Sun3Grid 8000 Pnom 8.00 kW ac

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Inverter pack Nb. of units 98.0 Pnom total 784 kW ac
User's needs Unlimited load (grid)

Main simulation results

System Production Produced Energy 1289 MWh/year Specific prod. 1289 kWh/kWp/year
Performance Ratio PR 85.14 %

Normalized productions (per installed kWp): Nominal power 1000 kWp Performance Ratio PR

7 1.0
Lc : Collection Loss (PV-array losses) 0.49 kWh/kWp/day PR : Performance Ratio (Yf / Yr) : 0.851
0.9
Ls : System Loss (inverter, ...) 0.12 kWh/kWp/day
6
Yf : Produced useful energy (inverter output) 3.53 kWh/kWp/day
0.8
[kWh/kWp/day]

5 0.7
Performance Ratio PR

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0.6
4
Energy

0.5

3
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

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Balances and main results

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February
March
April
GlobHor
kWh/m²
41.4
63.3
107.5
141.1
DiffHor
kWh/m²
19.59
31.19
49.74
63.46
T_Amb

0.53
2.11
6.20
°C

10.31
GlobInc
kWh/m²
71.9
95.3
138.7
158.4
GlobEff
kWh/m²
69.9
92.5
134.8
153.7
EArray
MWh
68.7
90.9
126.0
138.8
E_Grid
MWh
66.3
88.0
122.0
134.2
PR

0.922
0.924
0.879
0.848
May 168.3 71.63 15.12 170.9 165.5 144.6 139.7 0.817
June 177.2 85.08 18.04 173.0 167.1 147.4 142.4 0.823
July 177.4 83.21 19.08 176.6 170.8 149.3 144.3 0.817
August 150.9 71.15 18.71 163.6 158.5 138.3 133.7 0.817
September 111.0 48.97 14.66 135.1 131.3 116.2 112.2 0.831
October 77.7 39.65 11.01 109.3 106.1 98.9 95.7 0.875
November 41.5 21.84 5.46 64.2 62.3 59.6 57.4 0.894

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Year

Legends: GlobHor
DiffHor
T_Amb
31.9
1289.2
17.22
602.72

Horizontal global irradiation

Horizontal diffuse irradiation
T amb.
1.57
10.28
56.7
1513.7
54.9
1467.3

GlobEff
EArray
E_Grid
54.7
1333.4
52.7
1288.5
0.930
0.851

Effective Global, corr. for IAM and shadings

Effective energy at the output of the array
Energy injected into grid
GlobInc Global incident in coll. plane PR Performance Ratio

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Grid-Connected System: Special graphs

Project : Grid N13 Motorway Domat/Ems power plant
Simulation variant : New simulation variant
Main system parameters System type No 3D scene defined, no shadings
PV Field Orientation tilt 29° azimuth 0°
PV modules Model SYP310M Pnom 310 Wp
PV Array Nb. of modules 3225 Pnom total 1000 kWp
Inverter Model Sun3Grid 8000 Pnom 8.00 kW ac

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Inverter pack Nb. of units 98.0 Pnom total 784 kW ac
User's needs Unlimited load (grid)

Daily Input/Output diagram

7000
Values from 01/01 to 31/12
6000
Energy injected into grid [kWh/day]

5000

4000

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2000

1000

0
0 2 4 6 8 10
Global incident in coll. plane [kWh/m².day]

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System Output Power Distribution

40000
Values from 01/01 to 31/12
35000
Energy injected into grid [kWh / Bin]

30000

25000

20000

15000

PVsyst TRIAL 10000

5000

0
0 200 400 600 800
Power injected into grid [kW]

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Grid-Connected System: Loss diagram

Project : Grid N13 Motorway Domat/Ems power plant
Simulation variant : New simulation variant
Main system parameters System type No 3D scene defined, no shadings
PV Field Orientation tilt 29° azimuth 0°
PV modules Model SYP310M Pnom 310 Wp
PV Array Nb. of modules 3225 Pnom total 1000 kWp
Inverter Model Sun3Grid 8000 Pnom 8.00 kW ac

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Inverter pack Nb. of units 98.0 Pnom total 784 kW ac
User's needs Unlimited load (grid)

Loss diagram over the whole year

1289 kWh/m² Horizontal global irradiation

+17.4% Global incident in coll. plane

-3.07% IAM factor on global

1467 kWh/m² * 6258 m² coll. Effective irradiation on collectors

efficiency at STC = 15.99% PV conversion

PVsyst TRIAL 1468 MWh

-0.82%
-5.48%
+0.75%

-1.10%
Array nominal energy (at STC effic.)
PV loss due to irradiance level
PV loss due to temperature
Module quality loss

Mismatch loss, modules and strings

-0.91% Ohmic wiring loss
1359 MWh Array virtual energy at MPP

-3.30% Inverter Loss during operation (efficiency)

-1.96% Inverter Loss over nominal inv. power
0.00% Inverter Loss due to max. input current
0.00% Inverter Loss over nominal inv. voltage

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0.00% Inverter Loss due to power threshold
0.00% Inverter Loss due to voltage threshold
1289 MWh Available Energy at Inverter Output
1289 MWh Energy injected into grid

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