Dimensionamento e simulação de um sistema fotovoltaico de microgeração distribuída

Abstract

Since the Industrial Revolution that took place in England, human beings strive to obtain varied forms of electric energy production, because it is directly tied to technological development and quality of life. One of the expanding sources is solar energy, because it is clean, renewable energy and relatively easy to obtain as the resource for producing electricity is the sun. For this reason it is necessary to use this model of energy production. But just like any type of electric power production, there are more efficient ways of producing energy, so it has an intrinsic need to know the factors that affect the production of electricity through photovoltaic panels. In addition, the sizing parameters should be understood so that there isn’t a oversized or undersized system. After all the theoretical development, the solar power plant can be simulated using the PVsyst software, which gives a descriptive report at the end of the simulation, describing all the losses and all the annual production of the system in question, which will be analyzed at the end of the work. This tool is essential to the development of photovoltaic projects, as this can determine the feasibility of the plant installation or not. Therefore, the focus of this work is to simulate a photovoltaic system for distributed microgeneration, sizing the equipment needed for such a project and to compare the results obtained in the simulation with an existing plant.