Stand-alone power system

About: Stand-alone power system is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 8650 publications have been published within this topic receiving 192397 citations. The topic is also known as: Stand-alone photovoltaic power system.

A PLL-Less Scheme for Single-Phase Grid Interfaced Load Compensating Solar PV Generation System

Abstract: This paper proposes a single-phase double-stage scheme for grid interfaced load compensating solar photovoltaic (PV) generating system. The scheme serves twofold objectives of alleviating power quality issues such as power factor correction and harmonics mitigation, while simultaneously extracting the maximum power generated by the PV unit. A simple notch-filtering control algorithm is designed to facilitate extraction of the real component of load current, exempting the services of a phase locked loop (PLL). The absence of a PLL reduces the system dependence on the proportional-integral (PI) controller tuning, which in turn improves the dynamic response and makes the system quite robust. The proposed solar PV generation system retains its ability of mitigating harmonics on cloudy days and also provides opportunity for night time utilization of available resources. The system has been analyzed under both linear and nonlinear varying loads using and an experimental verification of the results is carried out on a developed prototype of the system.

Adaptive Load Management: A System for Incorporating Customer Electrical Demand Information for Demand and Supply Side Energy Management

Abstract: A method for determining an amount of electricity to purchase includes determining electrical power consumption characteristics of an electrical load at an end user of the electricity. A preference of the end user for an output of the electrical load is ascertained. The output varies with a rate of electrical power consumption by the load. A mathematical model is created of an amount of electrical power to be consumed by the load as a function of time and of monetary cost of the electricity. The model is dependent upon the electrical power consumption characteristics of the electrical load and the preference of the end user for an output of the electrical load. An amount of electricity is purchased based on the mathematical model of an amount of electrical power to be consumed by the load, and based on the monetary cost of the electricity.

Hybrid solar converters for maximum exergy and inexpensive dispatchable electricity

Abstract: Photovoltaic (PV) solar energy systems are being deployed at an accelerating rate to supply low-carbon electricity worldwide. However, PV is unlikely to economically supply much more than 10% of the world's electricity unless there is a dramatic reduction in the cost of electricity storage. There is an important scientific and technological opportunity to address the storage challenge by developing inexpensive hybrid solar converters that collect solar heat at temperatures between about 200 and 600 °C and also incorporate PV. Since heat can be stored and converted to electricity at relatively low cost, collection of high exergy content (high temperature) solar heat can provide energy that is dispatchable on demand to meet loads that are not well matched to solar insolation. However, PV cells can collect and convert much of the solar spectrum to electricity more efficiently and inexpensively than solar thermal systems. Advances in spectrum-splitting optics, high-temperature PV cells, thermal management and system design are needed for transformational hybrid converters. We propose that maximizing the exergy output from the solar converters while minimizing the cost of exergy can help propel solar energy toward a higher contribution to carbon-free electricity in the long term than the prevailing paradigm of maximizing the energy output while minimizing the cost of energy.