Objective
Objectives of the project
The main objective of the project is to promote the modular PV systems technology for
small stand-alone applications, thus essentially supporting the goal of a decentralised electrification with photovoltaics. The technologies to be developed embrace system design techniques for AC coupled power components as well as operational control and monitoring for fast-controllable, inverter-based PV stand-alone systems which can cope with the dynamic requirements of electrical loads without using rotating transient storage units. Therefore, these systems mainly configured with static inverters are very well suited for supplying isolated consumers such as homes, farms and other decentralised establishments. Both single and three phase technologies will be examined.
Technical approach
The technical approach includes the following steps:
- Development of design rules for standardised stand-alone PV systems focusing on series production and minimisation of expenditure for design, installation and maintenance
- Development of operational control and communication techniques for PV inverter-dominated stand-alone systems using signal buses and other effective communication systems
- Verification of the technology by proving the functionality in existing experimentation plants
- Set-up and operation of two on-site pre-industrial pilot PV plants in single and three phase technology.
Expected achievements and exploitation
Due to their modular features, the same component types could be principally used for broad power and energy ranges, thus covering the total application spectrum for decentralised electrification with photovoltaics world-wide. Therefore, large-scale applicability is guaranteed. These first on-site pilot PV plants will be the base for series production of power and control components. Furthermore, essential cost-reduction is expected after the establishment of series production.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- engineering and technology materials engineering amorphous solids amorphous semiconductors
- engineering and technology environmental engineering energy and fuels renewable energy solar energy photovoltaic
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Coordinator
KASSEL
Germany
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