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The impact of photovoltaic power plants on surface energy budget based on an ecohydrological model

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  • Zhang, Nian
  • Zhang, Zifu
  • Cong, Zhentao
  • Lei, Huimin
  • Luo, Yong

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Solar photovoltaic (PV) generation has become the major type of solar energy utilization as the world's energy demand grows. However, the layout of large-scale public PV plants changes the original underlying conditions and has an impact on the local surface energy budget and distribution. Based on the ecohydrological model T&C, taking the fixed utility-scale PV plants as the typical object proposes a PV module, and the T&C-PV model is developed to simulate the impact of PV plants on the regional surface energy budget. Compared with the original T&C model, a substantially improvement of the simulation of energy flux in the PV plant paved underlying surface has been achieved in the T&C-PV model. This model is applied to PV power plants in Xinjiang Province, China, and the results show that the sensible heat flux increased by 12% and the latent heat flux decreased by 25%, with the percentage of transpiration decreasing from 90.1% to 74.5% and the percentage of evaporation increasing from 9.9% to 25.5% after the PV power plants are set up.

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  • Zhang, Nian & Zhang, Zifu & Cong, Zhentao & Lei, Huimin & Luo, Yong, 2023. "The impact of photovoltaic power plants on surface energy budget based on an ecohydrological model," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 212(C), pages 589-600.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:renene:v:212:y:2023:i:c:p:589-600
    DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2023.05.068
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