Energies (Feb 2023)

Optimal Design of PV Inverter Using LCOE Index

  • Morteza Tadbiri-Nooshabadi,
  • Jean-Luc Schanen,
  • Shahrokh Farhangi,
  • Hossein Iman-Eini,
  • Corentin Rizet

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/en16052213
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 16, no. 5
p. 2213

Abstract

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This work uses design optimization of a power electronics converter to achieve the best levelized cost of energy in a PV application. The methodology uses detailed models of power electronics’ active and passive components to determine the cost and performances of the solid-state energy conversion and connect them to the system-level vision. The deterministic algorithm used for converter sizing allows taking into account a large number of variables and constraints. Methodology, models, and some illustrations of the results are provided in this paper. A sensitivity analysis was also conducted on the cost model.

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