Controlled power distributed photovoltaic system using solar energy forecast

Abstract

The use of renewable energy sources to supply electricity in customer grids is a current practise in developed countries and, particularly, in the case of distributed solar energy generation grids. Even though, the environmental benefits of the practise drive to economic incentives to increase the renewable energies. However, because of the unsteady behaviour of the renewable electric energy sources [1], as wind energy and solar photovoltaic production, the increment in the use of these sources produces severe fluctuations in the electric grids. Then, their electric supply to the electric grid is limited and at the same time, an accurate renewable energy production forecast is required.

In this work, the feasibility of a new approach to reduce this problem is tested by the application (on a yearly basis) of a simulator of a production-storage controlled system, namely FOTOV, to be applied in the design of a photovoltaic (PV) installation