Techno-Economic Optimization of the Sizing of Large-Scale Linear Photovoltaic Systems

Basic Energy generation using solar photovoltaic requires large area. As cost of the land is growing day by day, there is a strong requirement to use the available land as efficiently as possible. The objective of this paper is to propose a new solution to install high-power photovoltaic (PV) systems in order to take advantage of linear surfaces, extending from hundreds of meters to tens, or even hundreds of kilometers, and only a few meters or few tens of meters in width or height such as cycle paths, motorway edges, railways, river dikes, etc. This system is called large-scale linear PV system. The possibilities and opportunities of these new kinds of large-scale PV plants are infinite.The work of this paper consists of defining and optimizing the electrical architecture of these large-scale innovative linear photovoltaic systems. We first presented a simplified modeling tool to meet both the precision and the speed criteria for optimization studies. Then, the technical and economic optimization of large linear PV systems was subsequently studied by optimizing the LCOE of different possible electrical architectures of this type of PV system.