Avaliação do desempenho operacional de um sistema agrofotovoltaico. Evaluation of the Operational Performance of an Agro-Photovoltaic System

Abstract

Solar agrovoltaic systems play a fundamental role in the energy transition, integrating the production of renewable energy with food production. The improvement in understanding this technology brings with it new challenges, considering the complexity of adapting cultivation engineering to photovoltaic systems. In the vast majority, agricultural crops are located far from urban areas. The lack of electrical infrastructure in rural areas of Brazil adds to the new challenges for the adaptation of agrovoltaic systems, with photovoltaic systems connected to the grid depending directly on its quality. The Performance Ratio (PR) describes the efficiency of photovoltaic plants (PV), being a fundamental parameter for their assessment. The collection of data performed by instruments located in the experimental area provides the necessary parameters for the application of the mathematical model that will describe the generation during periods of outage in the agrovoltaic solar plant. From the modeled data, it is possible to describe the annual PR, which will demonstrate the performance of photovoltaic solar energy generation over the course of a year.