Prediction of energy yield in Malaysia building integrated photovoltaic (PV) project / Nadia Faradila Jalawi

The development of building integrated photovoltaics in the urban environment represents an opportunity for energy production and use as source. It also has a positive impact on expanding the market for photovoltaics resulting in reduction in cell and system costs. The optimal utilization of solar modules technologies in different climates is of major economical important. In this paper will review and analyze the photovoltaic system performance method in Malaysia Building Integrated Photovoltaic Project. The prediction is being predicted from the aspect of Energy Yield, Specific Yield and Performance Ratio. This grid connected system are accessing by three photovoltaic technologies. The technologies are polycrystalline for System Al and System A2, amorphous silicon (thin film) for System B and monocrystalline for System CI, System C2 and System D. The study of many references indicates that higher module efficiency used less collector area of the PV modules (arrays) and hence less support structure to build for the system. From the prediction, System Al and A2 perform well with an energy production according to the expected values. The energy performance for System B is excellent than others. For System CI and System C2 the performances of energy are much lower then expected. Finally for System D the energy performance can be consider as good even it is quite lower than System Al, System A2 and System B.