PV Systems: from Small- to Large-Scale
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "A2: Solar Energy and Photovoltaic Systems".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 December 2019) | Viewed by 31379
Special Issue Editors
Interests: design; optimization; modeling and control of electric devices; machines, drives, and power system elements; electric power generation, transmission, and distribution; renewable energy sources and distributed generation; smart grids and microgrids; energy management systems
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Interests: simulation and modelling; remote sensing; parallel computing
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In recent years, PV systems have become one of the most appealing solutions for the utilization of renewable energy. On the one hand, tremendous progress has been made in the fields of PV materials, module technologies, power electronic converters, small PV systems, modeling, and simulation. On the other hand, new methods have been developed for large-scale, PV-system resource assessment based on heterogeneous earth observation data (e.g., digital terrain models, LiDAR, and satellite imagery) and Geographic Information Systems (GIS), in which the accuracy of the simulations and optimizations increases with the increasing resolution of the input data, yielding new applications for PV systems. Some of the new challenges related to the large-scale implementation of PV systems are resource assessment optimization, monitoring, grid integration, and interactions with the grid, including data fusion, combining grid configuration and operation data with earth observation data. The Special Issue covers, but is not limited to, the following:
- PV materials, including new and further developed solutions, modeling, and simulations
- PV cells and modules
- devices and solutions for PV systems (power electronics converters, DC-DC, DC-AC, optimizers, inverters, micro inverters, sun tracking systems, etc.)
- on-grid and off-grid operation, combined with energy storage
- the integration of PV systems in electric grids, and interaction with electric grids
- the operation and monitoring of PV systems
- modeling, simulation, control, and optimization (components, devices, and systems)
- large-scale applications (GIS, PV resource assessment, etc.)
Potential authors are invited to submit manuscripts containing original or substantially further developed solutions related to PV systems.
Prof. Dr. Gorazd Štumberger
Prof. Dr. Niko Lukač
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- PV systems
- PV materials
- PV modules
- power electronic converters
- interactions with the electric grid
- resource assessment
- solar energy
- modeling, optimization, simulation
- large-scale applications
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