Key points and difficulties in solar power generation research

What are the challenges facing the solar energy future?

The biggest challenge however facing the solar energy future is its unavailability all‐round the year, coupled with its high capital cost and scarcity of the materials for PV cells. These challenges can be met by developing an efficient energy storage system and developing cheap, efficient, and abundant PV solar cells.

What are the challenges of solar PV optimization?

As a second contribution, the review has discussed the key challenges of solar PV optimization highlighting complex computation, objective function problems and algorithm integration. Besides, the study has explained the challenges relating to cost, sizing, design, placement, power quality and energy loss.

What are the factors limiting the use of solar energy?

The major factors that limit the use of solar energy for various applications is that, it is cyclic time-dependent energy source. Therefore, solar system requires energy storage to provide energy in the absence of insolation . Comprehensive research and advancement in energy storage technologies offers benefits for solar in energy application.

Why are solar energy and photovoltaic cells prone to outages?

Solar energy and photovoltaic cells, like all other renewable energy sources, are prone to outages. It implies that it is not always available for power conversion, such as at night or when the weather is gloomy or damp. As a result, PV cells are unlikely to meet all of an electric power system’s demands.

What are the research trends in the development of solar power plants?

Finally, research trends in the development of solar power plants are presented. The credibility of the Photovoltaic system, types and limitations is the discussion under study system makes use of sun’s energy to generate electricity with the help of varied procedural systems; stand-alone, hybrid or grid charged.

How does weather affect the reliability of solar energy system?

The energy generated by solar PV varies with the change in solar irradiation during the day. The reliability of the solar energy system is substantially affected by the weather parameters (Bhandari et al., 2015). Therefore, optimization methods play an imperative role in enhancing the reliability and effectiveness of the solar system.