Simulation Of Electrical Power Generation Using Concentrated Photovoltaic Cell Through Solar Parabolic Dish Concentrator

Stating from domestic to commercial purpose, every time throughout the global electricity is becoming essential in 21st century to meet all needs of human being. Conventional energy source is not that much sufficient to compensate growing energy demand due to scarcity of fossil fuels. Therefore it may be considered as the call of time for searching of new renewable energy source in future to overcome this energy crisis which is now regarded as a major social challenge. In this context solar energy is considered as a best alternative due to certain factors such as carbon neutral energy, clean and affordable one. Photovoltaic power generation is the technique based on the direct transformation of sun light in to electrical energy by means of solar cell working on photovoltaic effect. But till date the installation cost of this technology seems to be quite high compared to conventional power system until unless a large government funding or subsidies are not being provided. So in order to avoid this problem, concentrating photovoltaic sun light has significantly made its stand due to its high efficiency, cheap and reduced area of requirement conversation. Lot of attempts has been made to produce electrical power through CPV (concentrating photo voltaic) by using numerous type of concentrator such as parabolic dish, trough, and Fresnel-lens with an occupied area in the range of 100-200m(2). However value of power generation by solar technology is highly influenced by geographical condition of the site and annual efficiency of the system. Greenius is an effective, reliable and user friendly interface tool for calculating and analyzing of different power projects like solar trough, photovoltaic cell, wind energy, dish stirling systems etc. Also economical feasibility of a new renewable power projects are easily predicted prior planning and installation by this tool. In this paper electrical power, voltage and current produced by 12.6 m(2) parabolic dish concentrator with a CPV system has been numerically simulated using Greenius software package.