REGACE project researchers from the University of Rome Tor Vergata presented at the 41st European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition (EU PVSEC) 2024, which took place on September 23-27, in Vienna, Austria.
PhD student Federico Andreozzi presented on Monday September 23, a poster entitled, “Outdoor characterization protocol of bifacial PV modules for Agri-PV application.”
The poster was prepared by Andreozzi, Gianluigi Bovesecchi, Marcello Petitta, and Cristina Cornaro and shows the protocol conceived for the outdoor characterization of Bifacial PV modules samples installed in the pilots of the REGACE project.
On Thursday September 26, PhD student Ali Sohani gave an oral presentation on the topic of “An Accurate Data-Driven Physical Model for Bifacial PV Power Estimation”.
His presentation was based on a research paper authored by Sohani, Marco Pierro, David Moser, and Cornaro. Pierro and Moser are from Eurac Research in Bolzano, Italy. Sohani and Cornaro are from the Department of Enterprise Engineering, University of Rome Tor Vergata as part of the REGACE Project.
In his presentation, Sohani showcased a proposed data-driven model, which is able to estimate the rear side production separately, in order to help analyze and diagnose a BFPV system better.
The model could be beneficial in the framework of a variety of EU Horizon projects, such as TRUST-PV (power production) and REGACE projects (Agri-PV). It is providing high accuracy (Good values for both Normalized Root Mean Square Error (NRMSE) and Normalized Mean Bias Error (NMBE)).
For Single-Axis Tracking (SAT) configuration, where PVlib has the potential of usage due to availability of Rear Tilted Irradiance (RTI) data, a better accuracy than PVlib has been observed. For Fixed-Tilted (FT) configuration, in which PVlib could not be used because of RTI data absence, the proposed model has shown a high accuracy, as well.