The Dutch PV Portal 4.0

In the Netherlands, like in several other countries, there is a need to increase the contribution of Solar Energy to the energy generation technologies portfolio. To fully achieve integration and to use the entire potential of photovoltaic energy, certain levels of public knowledge and acceptance of the technology must be reached. In this context the role of scientific websites and information sources on Solar Energy gains importance significantly.In this paper the development of a new improved version of the Dutch PV Portal (DPVP), a website on photovoltaic energy on Netherlands territory developed by the Photovoltaic Materials and Devices (PVMD) research group of TU Delft, is developed. After a prelaminar website quality assessment to establish the preferred areas of improvement and overall quality status, a set of improvement objectives were defined. These included: i) Integration of real-time real life performance data of a case study in the DPVP, ii) creation of a shading function using LiDAR data, iii) Improvements of the mathematical model, iiii) Creation of a real-time alarm for performance sensitive parameters.These features are developed in the form of a case study monitoring platform which is integrated in the website. To do this a set of alarm systems as swell as visual monitoring tools were developed.Furthermore, with the use of the newly integrated data and existing weather databases, an accuracy analysis of the DPVP model is performed. Thanks to this, accuracy and limitation of the website’s mathematical model is assessed, and areas for future improvements are identified.Electrical Engineering | Sustainable Energy Technolog