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Probabilistic evaluation of UK domestic solar photovoltaic systems: An integrated geographical information system PV estimation tool

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posted on 2016-08-08, 13:40 authored by Philip LeicesterPhilip Leicester, Nicholas Doylend, Paul Rowley
It is shown how key predictor parameters for the spatial estimation of PV yield, self -consumption and thereby economic and social indicators can be extracted from a GIS system and introduced into a Bayesian Network model. This model endogenises the uncertainties and incorporates spatial variability inherent in these parameters. Empirical monthly and annual yield measurements obtained from over 600 PV installations have been obtained and compared with estimated yields obtained by two key solar tools used for performance estimation in the UK – these are PVGIS and the UK Government’s Standard Assessment Procedure (SAP) for domestic buildings. Mean bias estimates and root mean square error estimations were obtained for each tool and the results used to construct an uncertainty distribution in PV yield prediction given key input parameters such as system rating, orientation and tilt. This uncertainty was used to furnish a probabilistic graphical model with a prior distribution for PV yield estimation. This was integrated into a Geographical Information (GIS) system furnished with roof and building stock parameters including roof attributes obtained from lidar data. Elements held in a vector layer of the GIS system can be selected and the resultant distributions of input parameters automatically fed to the model to yield a posterior distribution of the PV yield. The model is able to propagate the yield uncertainty to other probabilistic models, including ones which predict the internal rate of return and self -consumption. The latter is in turn predicted by empirical marginal distributions of domestic electricity consumption. Thus with a given posterior distributions of PV yield, new posterior distributions for the internal rate of return, self-consumption and carbon emission savings are automatically calculated. By integration with GIS this novel approach allows the spatial analysis of the uncertainty pertaining to representative risk factors for PV adoption in the UK, and facilitate the estimation by installers, investors, and local authorities in a manner which endogenises uncertainty.

Funding

This work was supported by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) of the United Kingdom through EPSRC grants EP/K022229/1 (WISE PV - Whole System Impacts and Socio-economics of wide scale PV integration) and EP/K02227X/1 (PV2025 - Potential Costs and Benefits of Photovoltaics for UK -Infrastructure and Society).

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  • Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering

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EU PVSEC EU PVSEC Proceedings

Pages

2454 - 2460 (7)

Citation

LEICESTER, P.A., DOYLEND, N. and ROWLEY, P., 2016. Probabilistic evaluation of UK domestic solar photovoltaic systems: An integrated geographical information system PV estimation tool. IN: Proceedings of 2016 32nd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference (EU-PVSEC), Munich, 20-24th June, pp. 2454-2460.

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© WIP Wirtschaft und Infrastruktur

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

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2016-06-23

Publication date

2016

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This is a conference paper.

ISBN

3-936338-41-8

Language

  • en

Location

Munich

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