Design considerations for long-term remote photovoltaic-based power supply Conference Paper

abstract

• This paper discusses fundamental design issues for a photovoltaic-based, maintenance-free, highly available power supply for remote unattended loads. Example applications in rural settings include agricultural sensors and controls, geological and meteorological sensors, broadband internet hardware, and surveillance equipment for border patrol. Urban examples include traffic monitoring equipment and homeland security sensors. While the electrical power required by these loads is not high per se, the accumulated lifetime energy is high for many years of unattended operation. Conventional solutions require expensive pole-drop utility connections, incur high replacement cost of batteries, require regular preventative maintenance, or are extremely large and bulky. The system-oriented design described here uses a combination of energy storage, solar panels, power electronics circuits, and control algorithms. 2008 IEEE.

name of conference

• 2008 Twenty-Third Annual IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition

authors

• Balog, Robert

published proceedings

• APEC 2008: TWENTY-THIRD ANNUAL IEEE APPLIED POWER ELECTRONICS CONFERENCE AND EXPOSITION, VOLS 1-4

author list (cited authors)

• Kuhn, B. T., & Balog, R. S.

citation count

• 9

complete list of authors

• Kuhn, Brian T||Balog, Robert S

publication date

• February 2008

publisher

• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)  Publisher

published in

• n1048-2334ISSN  Journal

keywords

• 40 Engineering
• 4008 Electrical Engineering
• 4009 Electronics, Sensors And Digital Hardware
• 7 Affordable And Clean Energy

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1109/APEC.2008.4522715

International Standard Book Number (ISBN) 13

• 978-1-4244-1873-2

start page

• 154

end page

• 159

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/apec.2008.4522715

user-defined tag

• 7 Affordable and Clean Energy