Case Study: Condition Assessment of a Photovoltaic Power Plant using Change-point Analysis

Steffen Dienst, Johannes Schmidt, Stefan Kühne

2013

Abstract

Today, the operation of sustainable power plants mainly relies on visualization of power production. Measurement data of such power plants are often discarded. We show the idle potential of such data by applying a state of the art algorithm to recognize malfunctions in a photovoltaic power plant. Up to now, these failures could only be found by manual inspection of the power plant every six weeks. Our results show a substantial financial benefit: power outages of power plant components due to fuse failures often can be recognized within days. This fact results in a reduction of financial losses up to at least 63% by being able to schedule repairs faster.

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Dienst S., Schmidt J. and Kühne S. (2013). Case Study: Condition Assessment of a Photovoltaic Power Plant using Change-point Analysis . In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Smart Grids and Green IT Systems - Volume 1: SMARTGREENS, ISBN 978-989-8565-55-6, pages 159-164. DOI: 10.5220/0004406801590164


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@conference{smartgreens13,
author={Steffen Dienst and Johannes Schmidt and Stefan Kühne},
title={Case Study: Condition Assessment of a Photovoltaic Power Plant using Change-point Analysis},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Smart Grids and Green IT Systems - Volume 1: SMARTGREENS,},
year={2013},
pages={159-164},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004406801590164},
isbn={978-989-8565-55-6},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Smart Grids and Green IT Systems - Volume 1: SMARTGREENS,
TI - Case Study: Condition Assessment of a Photovoltaic Power Plant using Change-point Analysis
SN - 978-989-8565-55-6
AU - Dienst S.
AU - Schmidt J.
AU - Kühne S.
PY - 2013
SP - 159
EP - 164
DO - 10.5220/0004406801590164