Daily performance of kaneka g-sa060 amorphous silicon photovoltaic module based on solar irradiation and temperature in kangar malaysia as dc voltage source on spwm transformerless photovoltaic inverter

Abstract

This paper presents the daily performance of Kaneka G-SA060 amorphous silicon photovoltaic (PV) module. It is very important to study the data of solar irradiation and temperature related to the performance of PV module. In this paper, the daily data of irradiation and temperature are recorded throughout a year by Centre of Excellence for Renewable Energy (CERE) Weather Station, Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP). A mathematical modelling of PV performance is applied for the daily data of irradiation and temperature. The result shows that if the solar irradiation increases and the temperature is constant, thus the PV performance will increase. Inversely, if the temperature increases and the solar irradiation is constant, thus the PV performance will decrease. The performance of three unit of 91.8 V, 60 W PV modules connected in series are simulated in order to obtain an information of the total of open circuit voltage, short circuit current and maximum power through the year of 2015. This information is very important to decide that sinusoidal pulse width modulation (SPWM) transformer less photovoltaic inverter (TPVI) is suitable or not to be applied in Kangar, Malaysia.