Power output fluctuations in large scale PV plants: one year observations with one second resolution and a derived analytic model

J Marcos, L Marroyo, E Lorenzo… - Progress in …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
The variable nature of the irradiance can produce significant fluctuations in the power
generated by large grid‐connected photovoltaic (PV) plants. Experimental 1 s data were …

Intra-hour forecasts of solar power production using measurements from a network of irradiance sensors

VPA Lonij, AE Brooks, AD Cronin, M Leuthold, K Koch - Solar energy, 2013 - Elsevier
We report a new method to forecast power output from photovoltaic (PV) systems under
cloudy skies that uses measurements from ground-based irradiance sensors as an input …

Real-time energy management for cooperative microgrids with renewable energy integration

K Rahbar, CC Chai, R Zhang - 2014 IEEE International …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The reliable operation of microgrids is hindered by the integration of intermittent renewable
energy generations. To overcome this problem, in this paper we study the realtime energy …

[HTML][HTML] Geographic smoothing of solar photovoltaic electric power production in the Western USA

K Klima, J Apt, M Bandi, P Happy, C Loutan… - Journal of Renewable …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
We examined the geographic smoothing of solar photovoltaic generation from 15 utility-
scale plants in California, Nevada, and Arizona and from 19 commercial building …

Statistical analysis of the smoothing effect for photovoltaic systems in a large area

T Oozeki, T Takashima, K Otani, Y Hishikawa… - IEEJ Transactions on …, 2010 - elibrary.ru
A generation fluctuation of a Photovoltaic (PV) system is one of the most important grid
integration issues with dissemination of large amount of PV systems. In grid integration …

Managing solar-PV variability with geographical dispersion: An Ontario (Canada) case-study

IH Rowlands, BP Kemery, I Beausoleil-Morrison - Renewable Energy, 2014 - Elsevier
The purpose of this article is to determine whether the geographic dispersion of solar-
photovoltaic panels reduces variability in energy production. Following this, three questions …

Power output fluctuations in large PV plants

J Marcos, L Marroyo, M Garcia, E Lorenzo - RE&PQJ, 2012 - repqj.com
The power generated by large photovoltaic (PV) plants is of an intermittent nature, due to
cloud passage, which can create considerable fluctuations in output. Therefore, if the …

Optimal capacity selection of hybrid energy storage systems for suppressing PV output fluctuation

R Watanabe, Y Ito, Y Hida, R Yokoyama… - IEEE PES Innovative …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Photovoltaic (PV) system is installed in power system as one of the countermeasures for
problems of the global warming. The output fluctuations due to the climate condition make …

An application of robust power system security to power system operation for high-penetration of PV

Y Okumoto, N Yorino, Y Zoka, Y Sasaki… - 2012 3rd IEEE PES …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes a method of analyzing the N-1 security under the circumstances of PV
penetration. The concept of Robust Power System Security (RS) proposed by the authors is …

[PDF][PDF] Copula correlation modeling of aggregate solar irradiance in spatial networks

J Munkhammar, J Widén - Proceedings of Solar Integration …, 2016 - researchgate.net
Estimating solar irradiance over several locations in a spatial network is of interest for a wide
variety of applications, in particular for simulations of distribution grid with high photovoltaic …