Uruguay Solar Panel Photovoltaic

Legislative support for solar power has existed since 2013 and the total installed capacity of distributed solar generation reached 270 MW in 2022. Uruguay receives an average 1,700 KW per square meter of sunlight a year, on a par with Mediterranean countries although solar represents only a fraction of the country's total electricity production.

It is based on 15 years of solar radiation data generated with a low uncertainty satellite estimation model, locally adapted to the specific characteristics of the Uruguayan territory . The non-solar quantities were measured on the ground by national measurement networks.

An optimized PV plant design can provide a better return on investment by leveraging costs and energy production, resulting in higher solar PV capacity factors (the ratio of energy produced to maximum potential production).

According to the experimental results, the optimized relative net present value ranges from 1.37 to 1.39, with optimized capacity factors around 24%. Index Terms—PV power plant, optimization, NPV, Uruguay. Solar photovoltaic (PV) installed capacity is growing at unprecedented rates around the world every year .

The control variables include the tilt of the photovoltaic panels, the number of series and parallel connections, the number of rows and columns of photovoltaic blocks in the sub-park, the distance between the rows, and the ratio of the DC power of the photovoltaic panels to the nominal AC power of the plant.