1. Solar Tracking Control Algorithm Based on Artificial Intelligence Applied to Large-Scale Bifacial Photovoltaic Power Plants.
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Santos de Araújo, José Vinícius, de Lucena, Micael Praxedes, da Silva Netto, Ademar Virgolino, Gomes, Flávio da Silva Vitorino, Oliveira, Kleber Carneiro de, de Souza Neto, José Mauricio Ramos, Cavalcante, Sidneia Lira, Morales, Luis Roberto Valer, Villanueva, Juan Moises Mauricio, and Macedo, Euler Cássio Tavares de
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PHOTOVOLTAIC power systems ,TRACKING algorithms ,MAXIMUM power point trackers ,ARTIFICIAL intelligence ,SOLAR panels ,SOLAR energy - Abstract
The transition to a low-carbon economy is one of the main challenges of our time. In this context, solar energy, along with many other technologies, has been developed to optimize performance. For example, solar trackers follow the sun's path to increase the generation capacity of photovoltaic plants. However, several factors need consideration to further optimize this process. Important variables include the distance between panels, surface reflectivity, bifacial panels, and climate variations throughout the day. Thus, this paper proposes an artificial intelligence-based algorithm for solar trackers that takes all these factors into account—mainly weather variations and the distance between solar panels. The methodology can be replicated anywhere in the world, and its effectiveness has been validated in a real solar plant with bifacial panels located in northeastern Brazil. The algorithm achieved gains of up to 7.83% on a cloudy day and obtained an average energy gain of approximately 1.2% when compared to a commercial solar tracker algorithm. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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