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Technical feasibility of a utility scale PV plant on uneven terrain in Borlänge, Sweden
Dalarna University, School of Information and Engineering.
Dalarna University, School of Information and Engineering.
2022 (English)Independent thesis Advanced level (degree of Master (One Year)), 10 credits / 15 HE creditsStudent thesis
Abstract [en]

Installing ground-mounted PV plants is usually preferred to be done on even and flatterrains, where designing parameters are less restricted and the installation process issimpler. The increasing renewable energy demand expresses the need to study uneventopographies as an alternative for utility-scale PV plants.This work is aimed to study the technical feasibility of installing a utility-scale PV plant ona terrain of 47 ha with uneven topography in Central Sweden, where a potential windpower plant might be installed.The work is divided in three parts. First, a study of the terrain analyzing the mainparameters (elevation, orientation, slope, irradiance) using ArcGIS to determine the areawhere the PV plant could be installed. Second, the optimal combination of tilt angle andpitch distance for the site is determined in terms of lowest levelized cost of electricity(LCOE). This was done through modelling with Sketchup and Skelion, and simulatingwith PVsyst. Third, on the selected surfaces, and considering the optimal parametersdetermined before, a PV plant was thoroughly designed and simulated with PVsyst.The results show that it is feasible to install a 5.8 MW PV plant on the terrain, and theLCOE value suggests that the success of the PV plant will depend on a power purchaseagreement. The optimization criteria based on LCOE gave non-conclusive results andsuggests that, in this case, it might be better to optimize based on maximizing yield. Futurework could be done improving the methodology, studying the solar potential based onother criteria, and studying the wind and solar combined production in this site.

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2022.
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Energy Engineering
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URN: urn:nbn:se:du-39461OAI: oai:DiVA.org:du-39461DiVA, id: diva2:1637152
Subject / course
Energy Technology
Available from: 2022-02-11 Created: 2022-02-11 Last updated: 2022-02-14

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