Title

Quantifying Solar Power Variability For A Large Central Pv Plant And Small Distributed Pv Plant

Keywords

Geographic smoothing; High PV penetration; Metrics; Solar power variability

Abstract

Photovoltaic energy is susceptible to high variability, caused by passing clouds that may affect a site's daily energy production substantially. The reduction in solar variability due to geographic diversity was compared for a large central PV plant and small distributed PV plants using a multistep approach. At short timescales, geographic smoothing offers a strong benefit, which decreases with longer timescales and increased spatial correlation. The design attributes and relative locations of individual PV systems on a distribution feeder could significantly change the geographic dispersion effects. © 2013 IEEE.

Publication Date

1-1-2013

Publication Title

Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference

Number of Pages

969-972

Document Type

Article; Proceedings Paper

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1109/PVSC.2013.6744303

Socpus ID

84896441442 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84896441442

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