Photovoltaic Power Generation And Voltage Fluctuation

Abstract

In this paper, weather station is the main things to do this experiment. Solar cell is one of the importance renewable energy that rapidly growth as the alternative energy to fossil fuel. Weather station is function to get energy from the sunlight. After that, software that used to get the energy data from weather station is Vantage Pro software. The solar radiation was measured by solar radiation sensor. It is design with diffuser element and housing which have accurate cosine response as outdoor unit. The radiation heating was minimizing by two pieces housing, allows the sensor cooling and prevent the water and dust trapping.  The display console is used indoor to provide the solar radiation and measurements. This display console will act the receiver and receive the information to processor for raw outside data and as a display unit. The data was collected and transferred to vantage pro2. After that, vantage pro2 link with computer to save the data and to be analyzed to choose the correct location of PV module. The data was collected and recorded for thirty-one days and plotted in graph for explanation purpose. The results of the PV generation show that the highest solar energy was produced on 29 January with the value of 632.5 (watt/ ) and the lowest value of solar energy is produced on 14 January with the value of 341.8 (watt/ ). So, the number of days when the solar energy under than 400 (watt/ ) is less than the solar energy more than 400 (watt/ ). So, the factor that affects the fluctuation of solar energy is solar radiation and the temperature of the surrounding area. Therefore, from the result that showed in the table above prove that the area is suitable for implementing the PV panel.