Editorial to the ‘Special Issue—Solar Photovoltaic System Engineering’ of AIMS Energy

摘要

In most of the countries, the solar photovoltaic systems have reached to the grid parity. Thehigher capacity of solar photovoltaic power plants are connecting within the higher and mediumvoltage networks, and lower capacity photovoltaic units within the low voltage network (i.e.,distributed network). There are many technical challenges for integrating the solar PV plants athigher voltage levels as well as lower voltage levels. The key challenging issues, for increasingfurther penetration of solar photovoltaic systems in the electrical power network, are technologydevelopments for intelligent power conditioning devices, integration of hybrid energy storage formaking solar photovoltaic system as dispatchable power source, mitigation of power quality issues,demand side management, technology development of solar photovoltaic based micro-grid, technoeconomic operational strategies, etc.