Impact of inverter configuration on energy cost of grid-connected photovoltaic systems

Renewable Energy

Volumn 41, Issue , 2012, Pages 328-335

  He, Fanbo ^a,b   Zhao, Zhengming ^a,b   Yuan, Liqiang ^a,b  

^a State Key Lab of Control and Simulation of Power Systems and Generation Equipments   (China)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cost; Parallel; Photovoltaic systems; Reliability; System configuration; Yield estimation

Indexed keywords

COMMON DC BUS; EFFICIENCY CHARACTERISTIC; ENERGY COST; ENERGY YIELDS; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; GRID CONNECTED PV SYSTEM; GRID-CONNECTED PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM; INVERTER EFFICIENCY; INVERTER SYSTEM; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; OPERATION STRATEGY; OPTIMAL OPERATION STRATEGY; PARALLEL; PARALLEL INVERTER; PERFORMANCE RATIO; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEMS; POTENTIAL SOLUTIONS; PV ARRAYS; PV PANEL; PV POWER GENERATION; SOLAR IRRADIANCES; SYSTEM CONFIGURATIONS; SYSTEM COSTS; YIELD ESTIMATION;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST REDUCTION; COSTS; DC POWER TRANSMISSION; OPTIMIZATION; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RELIABILITY; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; SOLAR ENERGY;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM; SOLAR RADIATION;

EID: 84155163067     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2011.11.030     Document Type: Article

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