MATLAB: How does time-variyng radiation is interpreted by a Solar Cell in Simulink? How to obtain the power produced

Question

Hello everybody,

I'm interested in obtaining the annual power production of a single solar cell. For that I have done the input of a timeseries in Simulink where the first column is the annual hours (01-12-2017 12:00:00, for example) and the second is the correspondent radiation in Wh/m2).

How do I obtain the power produced for the complete input time?

Thank you so much, Sofia

Answer 1

You can write a program for that, with irradiance as input and maximum power from the cell as output. So for each time you can calculate the maximum power the cell can generate. You can calculate the total energy the cell can produce in a year from this.