Solar Plant in a Remote location
Solar Plant in a Remote location
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Hello,
Question 1: Can someone help me to understand why and what size of reliable power generation in parallel to solar plant is needed for operating in isolated grid area (where there is no existing grid)? I was told that the DC to AC converters require reliable operating reference voltage and frequency to generate the electricity from the solar farm. If this is the case, a 10MW solar plant requires how much of reliable source of power. example 500kW diesel generation or 1MW diesel generation? how to size this generation unit??
Question 2: How to provide the KVAR support from the inverters in the solar plant to the loads in a completely isolated system? can i add bunch of capacitor banks to match the reactive loads in different locations??
Thanks for the help in advance.
Dinesh
Question 1: Can someone help me to understand why and what size of reliable power generation in parallel to solar plant is needed for operating in isolated grid area (where there is no existing grid)? I was told that the DC to AC converters require reliable operating reference voltage and frequency to generate the electricity from the solar farm. If this is the case, a 10MW solar plant requires how much of reliable source of power. example 500kW diesel generation or 1MW diesel generation? how to size this generation unit??
Question 2: How to provide the KVAR support from the inverters in the solar plant to the loads in a completely isolated system? can i add bunch of capacitor banks to match the reactive loads in different locations??
Thanks for the help in advance.
Dinesh





RE: Solar Plant in a Remote location
For the ones that do, its important to ensure that the output of the inverter never exceeds the connected load (plus an allowance for the generator minimum load).
For a 10MW solar farm, one would hope that the inverter also has a reactive power capability so as to be able to support the connected load's reactive power requirement.
Obviously I've neglected what happens when the solar disappears quickly and associated problems.
RE: Solar Plant in a Remote location
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RE: Solar Plant in a Remote location
Thanks