Solar Farm Electrical Utility Plant

Concepts
Solar farm

  • Widely dispersed absorbers (one PV absorber for each collector)
  • Collectors: parabolic points , troughs or paraboloids
  • Each PV collector is connected to a distributed inverter by dc power lines
  • Distributed inverters connected to primary grid coupling transformer
  • Efficiency: approx 20% maximum, 11% to 15% average
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System elements

  •  sun-tracking heliostats in support ass'y tower
  • distributed inverters (DC to AC)
  • central grid transformer
10 MW (medium size farm) is sufficient for approx. 10 000 apts or small homes

Solar Farms - typical power production cost target approximately 5-7 cents per kwH including amortization of initial capex over 20 years.

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