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Grid-Connected System: Simulation parameters

Project : La Definition
Geographical Site Benin City Country Nigeria
Situation Latitude 6.32° N Longitude 5.60° E
Time defined as Legal Time Time zone UT+1 Altitude 156 m
Albedo 0.20
Meteo data: Benin City MeteoNorm 7.2 station - Synthetic

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Simulation variant :

Simulation parameters
Collector Plane Orientation
200409-Tower C
Simulation date

System type
Tilt
09/04/20 15h14

No 3D scene defined, no shadings

20° Azimuth -120°
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 TSM-345DD14A(II)
Original PVsyst database Manufacturer Trina Solar
Number of PV modules In series 26 modules In parallel 7 strings
Total number of PV modules Nb. modules 182 Unit Nom. Power 345 Wp
Array global power Nominal (STC) 62.8 kWp At operating cond. 56.7 kWp (50°C)
Array operating characteristics (50°C) U mpp 894 V I mpp 63 A
Total area Module area 353 m² Cell area 317 m²

Inverter Model SUN2000-60KTL-HV-D1

Original PVsyst database Manufacturer Huawei Technologies
Characteristics Operating Voltage 600-1480 V Unit Nom. Power 60.0 kWac
Max. power (=>30°C) 66.0 kWac

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Inverter pack Nb. of inverters 1 units Total Power 60 kWac
Pnom ratio 1.05

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. 236 mOhm Loss Fraction 1.5 % at STC
Module Quality Loss Loss Fraction -0.3 %
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 : La Definition
Simulation variant : 200409-Tower C
Main system parameters System type No 3D scene defined, no shadings
PV Field Orientation tilt 20° azimuth -120°
PV modules Model TSM-345DD14A(II) Pnom 345 Wp
PV Array Nb. of modules 182 Pnom total 62.8 kWp
Inverter Model SUN2000-60KTL-HV-D1 Pnom 60.0 kW ac

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User's needs Unlimited load (grid)

Main simulation results

System Production Produced Energy 81.09 MWh/year Specific prod. 1291 kWh/kWp/year
Performance Ratio PR 84.05 %

Normalized productions (per installed kWp): Nominal power 62.8 kWp Performance Ratio PR

6 1.0
Lc : Collection Loss (PV-array losses) 0.61 kWh/kWp/day PR : Performance Ratio (Yf / Yr) : 0.841
0.9
Ls : System Loss (inverter, ...) 0.06 kWh/kWp/day
5 Yf : Produced useful energy (inverter output) 3.54 kWh/kWp/day
0.8
[kWh/kWp/day]

0.7
4
Performance Ratio PR

0.6

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3 0.5

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

200409-Tower C
Balances and main results

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GlobHor DiffHor T_Amb GlobInc GlobEff EArray E_Grid PR
kWh/m² kWh/m² °C kWh/m² kWh/m² MWh MWh
January 141.5 82.70 28.00 128.7 123.7 6.876 6.766 0.838
February 133.2 83.60 28.60 123.9 119.5 6.605 6.499 0.836
March 153.7 87.60 29.00 145.9 141.2 7.742 7.617 0.831
April 142.8 77.00 28.10 142.4 138.1 7.606 7.485 0.837
May 145.4 75.80 27.90 147.7 143.1 7.877 7.750 0.836
June 135.5 78.60 26.20 136.4 132.0 7.351 7.235 0.845
July 106.0 73.80 25.80 104.9 101.3 5.656 5.563 0.845
August 114.3 65.80 25.30 112.1 108.3 6.106 6.008 0.854
September 116.2 75.60 25.50 113.7 109.9 6.123 6.024 0.844
October 138.4 75.60 26.90 129.8 125.3 6.985 6.873 0.844
November 143.6 74.00 27.60 129.7 124.7 6.941 6.831 0.839
December 135.5 80.90 27.19 121.3 116.5 6.543 6.440 0.845

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Legends: GlobHor
DiffHor
T_Amb
GlobInc
1606.1 931.00

Horizontal global irradiation

Horizontal diffuse irradiation
T amb.
Global incident in coll. plane
27.17 1536.5 1483.7

GlobEff
EArray
E_Grid
PR
82.411 81.091 0.841

Effective Global, corr. for IAM and shadings

Effective energy at the output of the array
Energy injected into grid
Performance Ratio

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Grid-Connected System: Special graphs

Project : La Definition
Simulation variant : 200409-Tower C
Main system parameters System type No 3D scene defined, no shadings
PV Field Orientation tilt 20° azimuth -120°
PV modules Model TSM-345DD14A(II) Pnom 345 Wp
PV Array Nb. of modules 182 Pnom total 62.8 kWp
Inverter Model SUN2000-60KTL-HV-D1 Pnom 60.0 kW ac

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User's needs Unlimited load (grid)

Daily Input/Output diagram

400
Values from 01/01 to 31/12
350
[kWh/day]

300

250
grid

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into

200
injected

150
Energy

100

50

0
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Global incident in coll. plane [kWh/m².day]

System Output Power Distribution

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1200
Values from 01/01 to 31/12
Bin]
/

1000
[kWh
grid

800
into

600
injected

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Energy

200

0
0 10 20 30 40 50 60
Power injected into grid [kW]

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Grid-Connected System: Loss diagram

Project : La Definition
Simulation variant : 200409-Tower C
Main system parameters System type No 3D scene defined, no shadings
PV Field Orientation tilt 20° azimuth -120°
PV modules Model TSM-345DD14A(II) Pnom 345 Wp
PV Array Nb. of modules 182 Pnom total 62.8 kWp
Inverter Model SUN2000-60KTL-HV-D1 Pnom 60.0 kW ac

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User's needs Unlimited load (grid)

Loss diagram over the whole year

1606 kWh/m² Horizontal global irradiation

-4.33% Global incident in coll. plane

-3.43% IAM factor on global

1484 kWh/m² * 353 m² coll. Effective irradiation on collectors

efficiency at STC = 17.79% PV conversion

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93.2 MWh Array nominal energy (at STC effic.)
-0.62% PV loss due to irradiance level

-9.55% PV loss due to temperature

+0.35% Module quality loss

-1.10% Mismatch loss, modules and strings

-0.89% Ohmic wiring loss
82.4 MWh Array virtual energy at MPP

-1.59% Inverter Loss during operation (efficiency)

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

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0.00% Inverter Loss due to voltage threshold
-0.01% Night consumption
81.1 MWh Available Energy at Inverter Output
81.1 MWh Energy injected into grid

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