The Effect of Dust Deposition on Photovoltaic Systems' Electricity Generation and Its Economical Analysis
Chapter from the book:
Çakoğlu,
A.
H.
&
Sancar,
M.
R.
(eds.)
2023.
Versatile Approaches to Engineering and Applied Sciences: Materials and Methods.
Synopsis
With the technological developments taking place in the world, an energy supply gap has emerged, and in order to meet this gap, there has been a shift towards renewable energy sources, taking into account the issue of global warming. Solar energy is in a position to be evaluated both in terms of thermal and photovoltaic systems among these sources. In Turkey, the use of solar energy is achieved with a very high percentage through photovoltaic systems. There are many different loss parameters in electricity production in photovoltaic systems. Among these parameters, the dust factor holds a very important place. This study was carried out on cement, white cement, plaster, technical plaster, and sand dust samples. Cleaning of these dust samples was simulated using PVsyst software at weekly, biweekly, monthly, bi-monthly, and quarterly intervals. As a result of the simulation studies, it was determined that the technical plaster dust sample had the highest dust loss, and cleaning at three-month intervals resulted in a decrease of approximately 81.1 MWh in energy production after one year. This decrease was economically analyzed for different subscription groups, and it was determined that it corresponded to a revenue decrease of 194,918.17 TL for the industry sub-area of the single tariff.