Multi-objective Planning of Large-Scale Photovoltaic Power Plants

摘要

1 Introduction Photovoltaic (PV) power plants play a decisive role in switching the global energy supply from fossil to renewable energies [1]. Compared to typical roof-top PV installations, it is a complex task to design the layout of a large-scale power plant due to a variety of free optimization parameters, many interdependent goals, and rather complex design principles [2]. Without further support, it is very hard for the responsible engineers to estimate the impact of their design decisions on the plant's overall technical and economic efficiency. While this is already the case with a single objective function to be optimized, the situation gets even more difficult when trying to balance the different objectives, of which many are contradicting on top of that.