TY  - JOUR
T1  - First Year Performance of a PV Plant in Jordan Compared to PV Plants in the Region
AU  - Hamzeh, Ali
AU  - Hamid, Sadeq
AU  - Al-omari, Zakaria Anas
AU  - Sandouk, Abbas
AU  - Aldahim, Ghada
PY  - 2015
DA  - December
JF  - International Journal Of Renewable Energy Research
PB  - İlhami ÇOLAK
WT  - DergiPark
SN  - 1309-0127
SP  - 983
EP  - 990
VL  - 5
IS  - 4
LA  - en
AB  - The paper presents the first year (2014) performance analysis of a 276 kWp grid-connected roof-type solar PV plant located at the campus of Al-Ahliyya Amman University in Jordan, using monitored data. The plant is installed on 3000 m2-roof of Arena building at University campus. The array consists of 1176 modules with two orientations 10° and 15°. The PV array is configured in a way that the system includes 14 panels in parallel with 14 inverters. The plant is equipped with a monitoring system which is connected to the internet and gives the data on a daily basis. The study shows that the actual and estimated specific energy production are 1639kWh/kWp-year, and 1726 kWh/kWp-year, respectively. The annual capacity factor and performance ratio are found to be 18.7% and 87.5%, respectively. The actual energy production is found to be 452406 kWh/year, whereas the estimated annual energy production is found to be 476467 kWh as calculated using the software PVsyst V6.32 . The measured and estimated yields are in close agreement to each other with a relative error of about 5%. It is found that the actual yield is maximum in July and minimum in January. The analyzed plant is compared to PV plants worldwide, and particularly in detail to a PV plant in Syria. The comparison shows that the overall performance of the AAU plant is excellent.
KW  - Photovoltaic Plant; Specific system Production; Performance Ratio; Capacity Factor; Jordan
KW  - Syria
UR  - https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/ijrer/article/167883
L1  - https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/147986
ER  -