Energia solar fotovoltaica: fundamentos para análise de viabilidade técnico-econômica

Abstract

This book, entitled “Photovoltaic Solar Energy: Fundamentals for Technical-Economic Viability Analysis”, is the result of a master's dissertation, which was carried out between 2016 and 2018, in the Postgraduate Program in Electrical Engineering at the Federal University of Piauí (UFPI). The research “Operational performance of photovoltaic systems installed in multi-campus educational institutions”, had as its main objective to evaluate the first year of operation of the photovoltaic system installed at the Floriano campus of the Federal Institute of Piauí (IFPI), in view of technical and economic aspects, in order to provide subsidies for the managers of multi-campus educational institutions to analyze the technical-economic feasibility of replicating photovoltaic systems. With a technical and scientific character, the book is organized into eight chapters, the first seven of which are intended to provide the necessary foundations for the understanding of photovoltaic solar technology and the tools necessary to carry out technical-economic feasibility analyses of photovoltaic systems. The article initially provides a contextualization of the use of photovoltaic solar energy as one of the most promising options among the various alternative sources for the development of a sustainable electricity generation system. The following section presents the knowledge required to understand solar energy and some of its main applications. With a special focus on photovoltaic solar energy, the main concepts and foundations of the technology and the main configurations used are presented. The main parameters used to evaluate the operational performance and monitoring of photovoltaic systems are also presented, in addition to the main metrics used in economic studies. Finally, the results of the study carried out on the photovoltaic system of the IFPI Floriano campus are presented, which are described in the article entitled “Technical-Economic Analysis of the First Mini-generation Photovoltaic System of Piauí, Brazil”, which was published in the scientific journal IEEE Latin America Transactions, in its volume 17, number 10, in October 2019, with the aim of exemplifying the application of the knowledge brought in the previous chapters.