Research article

USE PVSYST AND HELIOSCOPE SIMULATION TOOLS TO EVALUATION OF ON-GRID PV SYSTEM PERFORMANCE UNDER BAGHDAD CITY CLIMATE

Fatima T. Ahmed1, Hazim H. Husain1 and Naseer K. Kasim2

Online First: February 22, 2023


The HIT (Heterojunction with Intrinsic Thin-layer) technology for the manufacture of solar panels is one of the techniques that depends on the crystal structure of different crystalline materials in their crystalline structure, this technology provided good specifications for its adoption in the manufacturing of solar panels. This research presents a performance evaluation of the solar photovoltaic system connected to the grid with a capacity of 15 kWp as real data and compare it with the hypothetical data of two simulation tools (PV-syst, HelioScope) to find out the extent of the deviation of the HIT solar system from the hypothetical values. The results were that the performance ratio (PR) for the real system and PV-syst program (for year no: 10) is about 74%,79%respectively. performance ratio of PVsyst and HelioScope simulation tools (for year no: 1) is about 83.22%,84% , The difference between the energy output values of the actual system and PV-syst tool(for year no: 10) is1164 KWh and The difference between PV-syst and HelioScope software systems (for year no: 1) is 1190 KWh. There are some evaluate results, in most important expected photovoltaic losses that effect on the module performance were estimated by PV-syst and HelioScope software tools due to irradiance level and temperature losses ware 0.45 % ,7.42 % and 0.2% , 6.2 % , respectively. The performance and productivity results of the photovoltaic system indicate the quality of performance of HIT technology in the climatic conditions of the city of Baghdad.

Keywords

Performance PV solar system, HIT technology, Grid-connected, PVsyst , Helioscope