Performance Evaluation of Solar Photovoltaic Systems in Anand City, Gujarat, India

Since, India is situated on the sunny belt in the north of equator, the scope for generating power and thermal applications using solar energy is huge. The present study was planned to evaluate the performance of rooftop photovoltaic (PV) system in Anand city of Gujarat state of India. Performance of the PV system was carried out by recording and calculating various parameters such as average yearly solar PV energy yield, performance ratio and capacity utilization factor. The average daily energy yield of solar PV system was 42 kWh. The capacity utilization factor and performance ratio of solar PV system were 15% and 88% respectively. These results can be used by project developers to select optimum size of PV system to generate specified output of solar PV system.