Open AccessPotential assessment of solar power plant: A case study of a small island in Eastern Indonesia
Author(s) -
K. P. Aprilianti,
N. A. Baghta,
Dwi Riana Aryani,
Fauzan Hanif Jufri,
A. R. Utomo
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
iop conference series. earth and environmental science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.179
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1755-1307
pISSN - 1755-1315
DOI - 10.1088/1755-1315/599/1/012026
Subject(s) - photovoltaic system , cost of electricity by source , yield (engineering) , matlab , environmental science , electricity generation , solar energy , power station , power (physics) , agricultural engineering , computer science , electrical engineering , engineering , physics , quantum mechanics , thermodynamics , operating system
Indonesia as a tropical country has high solar energy potential to generate power. Solar power plant (SPP) using Photovoltaic (PV) is suitable for power generation in a small power system, such as in several small islands in Eastern Indonesia since solar energy is easy to obtain there. The implementation of SPP for power generation needs an examination of energy yield to observe the performance ratio of SPP. Those parameters are important to study to further analyze the economic potential and feasibility of SPP development. This study estimates the performance ratio (PR) and potential energy yield of SPP in a small island in Eastern Indonesia through a self-developed program using MATLAB based Graphical User Interface (GUI). Moreover, this program also provides the levelized cost of energy (LCOE) calculation and land use optimization by readjusting the PV array configuration. According to the simulation result, the implementation of SPP in Eastern Indonesia has 85.4% and 23.54% for annual PR and capacity factor (CF) respectively. The simulation also shows that the optimum distance between PV strings produces higher annual energy yield and CF.