Photovoltaic Modelling and Output Power Performance for Support of Power Consumption for an University Mosque

Abstract

Malaysia has the most abundant resources for renewable energy. Due to its geolocation, solar energy has the highest concentration compared to other renewable resources. Harvesting electrical energy from these resources necessitates the use of newly developed renewable technologies such as wind turbine, solar panel and water turbine. In addition to being new, the technology has a low rate of power generation, making it unsuitable as a major energy source. In this work, solar energy has been chosen as a source to help support the energy demand of an university mosque. Matlab/Simulink has been used to simulate the photovoltaic system and generate current against voltage (I-V) and power against voltage (P-V) graphs using mathematical modelling approach in order to measure the maximum point of the output data which is crucial for this research. Due to heat loss, the I-V graph indicates that current varies slightly as temperature rises, but voltage decreases and the P-V graph shows that when the temperature is low and the solar irradiation is high, higher power output is produced. The power output data was extracted and tested in different conditions and the percentages of the support power outputs obtained are within the desirable range for this study.