10878 results about "Photovoltaic power generation" patented technology

A modular apparatus for and method of alternating current photovoltaic power generation comprising via a photovoltaic module, generating power in the form of direct current; and converting direct current to alternating current and exporting power via one or more power conversion and transfer units attached to the module, each unit comprising a unitary housing extending a length or width of the module, which housing comprises: contact means for receiving direct current from the module; one or more direct current-to-alternating current inverters; an alternating current bus; and contact means for receiving alternating current from the one or more inverters.

Methods, apparatus, media and signals for controlling power drawn from an energy converter to supply a load, where the energy converter is operable to convert energy from a physical source into electrical energy. Power drawn from the energy converter is changed when a supply voltage of the energy converter meets a criterion. The criterion and the change in the amount of power drawn from the energy converter are dependent upon a present amount of power supplied to the load. The methods, apparatus, media and signals described herein may provide improvements to DC to AC maximum power point tracking in an energy conversion system such as a photovoltaic power generation system.

Apparatuses and methods are disclosed for regulating or limiting the voltage output from solar modules connected in series such that the voltage on a string bus connecting those solar modules does not exceed regulatory or safety limitations. This can be accomplished via a controller, local management units (for downconverting solar module voltage output), or a combination of the two.

An object of the present invention is to provide a photovoltaic power generation system which is capable of achieving system linkage of a plurality of solar cell strings having different output voltages to a commercial electric power system with ease, and which enables efficient use of the maximum output electric power. It is a photovoltaic power generation system characterized by disposing voltage regulating means that regulates a DC voltage outputted from non-standard solar cell string between a standard solar cell string and electric power converting means, and regulating an output voltage of the non-standard solar cell string to the side of an output voltage of the standard solar cell string by the use of the voltage regulating means.

A power supply system capable of smoothing photovoltaic generation output, and enabling time shift is provided. A power supply system including a DC power supply string in which a storage battery is connected in parallel to a DC power supply; and a DC/AC power conversion device for connecting the DC power supply string to a power system or a load is provided. A switch is connected between the DC power supply and the storage battery, where an output power of the DC power supply or a combined output power of the DC power supply and the storage battery is switched and supplied to the DC/AC power conversion device by the switch. The photovoltaic generation output is thereby smoothed, and time shift is enabled.

A photovoltaic power generating device comprising a current collecting box side detector for detecting a ground fault in each of the photovoltaic strings, a switch disposed in correspondence to each of the photovoltaic strings and interposed between the photovoltaic string and a connecting cable, a current collecting box including a control unit providing an on/off control of the switch according to the detection result from the detector, a detector for detecting a ground fault in a connecting cable between the current collecting box and the power conditioner, a switch interposed between the connecting cable and the inverter, and a power conditioner having a control unit providing an on/off control of the switch according to the detection result from the detector.

Briefly described, the invention provides a photovoltaic assembly power output utilizing device which partially charges a capacitor assembly. This capacitor assembly is then partially discharged by a DC/DC power converter in different ranges of voltages in which the power output from the photovoltaic assembly peaks for different light intensities.

There are provided a restricted area including an area in which solar cell modules are installed, a preventer for preventing intrusion of an intruder into the restricted area, and a detector capable of detecting the intrusion of the intruder into the restricted area, and a predetermined electric shock preventer is activated by a signal outputted from the detector upon detection of the intruder to prevent the intruder from receiving an electric shock.

Improved techniques for photovoltaic power generation are described. Inverter failure is can be a significant problem in solar photovoltaic systems as it can lead to loss of opportunity to harvest energy. A solar photovoltaic (PV) power generation system is described comprising solar PV panels and power conditioning units. A dc power distribution bus is coupled to the solar PV panels and the power conditioning units to switchably share dc power from the solar PV panels between the power conditioning units. Power distribution controllers detect a faulty power conditioning unit and reroute power from a solar PV panel coupled to the faulty power conditioning unit to other power conditioning units via the dc distribution bus.

A low voltage/power ratio photovoltaic power generation panel includes a plurality of photovoltaic cells, wherein at least a subset of the cells are arranged in an array of “x” columns and “y” rows of cells connected in a two dimensional matrix configuration, wherein the cells in each row are connected in parallel and the cells in each column are connected in series. The cells in the panel are connected by arranging the plurality of cells in a plurality of columns, each column having a number of cells; arranging the plurality of columns in the number of rows; and connecting the plurality of cells together in a two dimensional matrix configuration by connecting the cells in each row together in parallel and the cells in each column in series.

The invention relates to the technical field of photovoltaic micro-grid control, and particularly discloses a real-time coordination and control method of a photovoltaic micro-grid system. A central real-time optimal control layer and a local control layer are involved in the real-time coordination and control method. The central real-time optimal control layer collects the voltage and frequency of an AC bus of the photovoltaic micro-grid system, the charge state of a storage battery pack, the output power of photovoltaic power generation micro-sources, the output power of the storage battery pack, the output power of a super capacitor and the real-time power of a load in real time, generates a real-time coordination and control strategy and a secondary frequency modulation and scheduling plan, and issues the strategy and the plan to all local controllers. The local control layer coordinates and controls all the micro-sources in real time, and particularly achieves the scheduling plan issued by the central real-time optimal control layer. According to the real-time coordination and control method, a micro-grid central optimizing controller can manage, coordinate and control all the local controllers in a unified mode, the micro-grid can efficiently and economically run, the output power of the photovoltaic power generation unit is utilized to the maximum extent, the output power fluctuation and the tracking load change of the photovoltaic power generation unit are restrained, the running method of the micro-grid is reasonably adjusted, and energy balance is achieved.

Rectangular PV modules are mounted on a building roof by mounting stands that are distributed in rows and columns. Each stand comprises a base plate that rests on the building roof and first and second brackets of different height attached to opposite ends of the base plate. Each bracket comprises dual module-supporting members for supporting two different PV modules, and each PV module has a mounting stud adjacent to each of its four corners. At one end each module is supported by pivotal attachment of two of its mounting studs to module-supporting members of different first brackets. At its other end each module rests on module-supporting members of two different second brackets, whereby the modules assume a predetermined angle of tilt relative to the roof. Two tethers connect the other two mounting studs to the two different second brackets on which the module rests. The tethers allow the modules to pivot up away from the module-supporting members on which they rest to a substantially horizontal position in response to wind uplift forces, thereby enabling the PV modules and their supporting stands to withstand high velocity winds without the base plates being physically attached to the supporting roof structure.

The present invention relates to a photovoltaic three phase synchronization control method realizing maximum power tracking swiftly and stably, which belongs to the technical field photovoltaic power generating control. The method includes the steps as follows: judging the DeltaP/DeltaV value according to the power difference DeltaP between the current time k and the previous time and the voltage difference DeltaV; working out the Iref(k) when the photovoltaic array produces the maximum power; using the Iref(k) to adjust the uq* under the coordinates in vectorial synchronous rotation with the electric network voltage; acquiring six ways of space vectorial SVPWM impulse series according to the rotation angle degree Theta of the three phase electric network voltage, with the aim to control the inverter in order to ensure that the output current of the photovoltaic inverter has the same phase position as that of the mains voltage while ensuring the photovoltaic array is realizing the maximum power output tracking. The power factor is 1. The present invention also can adjust the Idref(k) according to local load requirements, therefore achieving adjustment to the power factor, with low synchronization current harmonic wave distortion factor.

The invention discloses a coordination control and optimization method for battery energy accumulation and photovoltaic power generation based on a co-direct current bus in synchronization and independent operation modes, which supports the access of various types of storage batteries and photovoltaic battery boards through the free combination of the co-direct current bus of a DC (Direct Current)/DC converter, the automatic intelligent charge-discharge management of a storage battery branch and the maximum power tracing management of a photovoltaic battery board branch, wherein the branches are completely independently controlled to realize optimization management; the energy collected by a direct current bus is interacted with the energy of a power grid or an independent load through a post DC/AC (Alternating Current) converter; the DC/AC converter adopts a method for carrying out directional vector control on the voltage of the power grid and modulating the space vector pulse widthof the voltage in the course of the synchronization operation in an active and reactive complete decoupling control mode; and V/f control is adopted in the course of the independent operation to provide a constant voltage and frequency reference to an alternating current bus. The result of an experiment proves that the invention can realize the coordination complementary control and the autonomous optimization management of photovoltaic power storage and has the advantages of good generality, practicality and application prospects.

The present invention provides photovoltaic wiring arrays and photovoltaic wiring systems suitable for use in rooftop photovoltaic power generation systems. Accordingly, one aspect of the invention provides a photovoltaic roofing wiring array for use with a plurality of photovoltaic roofing elements, each photovoltaic roofing element having a positive lead terminated in a positive connector and a negative lead terminated in a negative connector, and a lead-to-lead distance between the positive connector and the negative connector, the photovoltaic roofing wiring system comprising: a positive parallel wiring run, the positive parallel wiring run comprising a main line and one or more connection branches pendant from the main line, each connection branch being terminated in a positive connector; and a negative parallel wiring run, the negative parallel wiring run comprising a main line and one or more connection branches pendant from the main line, each connection branch being terminated in a negative connector, wherein each positive connector is coupleable to the positive connectors of the photovoltaic roofing elements; and wherein each negative connector is coupleable to the negative connectors of the photovoltaic roofing elements. In some embodiments of the invention, the photovoltaic roofing wiring arrays are substantially prefabricated.