Cost Effective Design of a 200 kW On-grid Rooftop Photovoltaic System Using PVsyst Software in Shiraz

Mofidian, Roozbeh; Hassankhani, Iman; Jahanshahi, Mojtaba; Hosseini, Seyed Sharafoddin; Miansari, Mehdi

doi:10.48301/jear.2024.194109

Cost Effective Design of a 200 kW On-grid Rooftop Photovoltaic System Using PVsyst Software in Shiraz

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

Roozbeh Mofidian ¹

Iman Hassankhani ²

Mojtaba Jahanshahi ³

Seyed Sharafoddin Hosseini ⁴

Mehdi Miansari ⁴

¹ Department of Chemical Engineering, Technical and Vocational University (TVU), Tehran, Iran

² Department of Electrical Engineering, Islamic Azad University of Semnan, Semnan, Iran

³ Department of Mechanical Engineering, Babol Noshirvani University of Technology, Babol, Iran

⁴ Department of Mechanical Engineering, Technical and Vocational University (TVU), Tehran, Iran

10.48301/jear.2024.194109

Abstract

Solar energy is a clean and nonrenewable energy provided by photovoltaic systems, and its use is increasing daily. In Iran, due to the diversity of the climate and the need to supply electricity on a large scale, the use of solar energy to supply the electricity needed by industrial and household units is considered. In this research, the economic design of a 200 kW on-grid power plant was demonstrated by PVsyst software using 364 modules (550 W) on a rooftop in Shiraz. Taking into account the geographical location of Shiraz (which is located at a latitude of 29.82 N and longitude of 52.60 E) and shading and the maximum use of sunlight, an angle of 30° was considered suitable for installing solar panels. The results showed that the total energy received by the panels was equal to 480.4 MW/h per year; after deducting the system losses, the amount of energy injected into the national grid was equal to 413.2 MW/h per year. The annual global irradiance on the horizontal plane was 2199.1 kWh/m², while the global incident in the collector plane and effective global irradiance after optical losses were 2467.3 kWh/m² and 2396 kWh/m², respectively. The annual DC energy produced from the PV array and the annual AC energy injected into the grid were 427.81 and 413.2 MWh, respectively. The cumulative cash flow rate showed that after 20 years, the income of this power plant was 7000 billion IRR.

Keywords

Photovoltaic System

Solar Energy

Cost Effective Design

PVsyst

Subjects

Mechanical Engineering

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