Author : Satish Pandey and Rajesh Kumar

The main concern of this paper is to investigate average daily auxiliary consumption of PV plants of various capacity & to obtain an inter-relation between them. Further to investigate percentage contribution of each component in order to get consumption of transformers and inverters separately. In addition, inverters & transformers used in various plants are not of same capacity and same manufacturer. Hence the study will figure out an inverter & transformer which has least per unit consumption & a PV plant designer can have an idea while selection of inverters & transformers for a given size of plant. Overall this study helps us to maximize the export energy & minimize the aux consumption within plant by right selection of equipment’s for PV plant during design stage.

Keywords: Solar PV Plant, Auxiliary, Consumption, Generation.

Article published in International Journal of Current Engineering and Technology, Vol.7, No.5 (Sept/Oct 2017)