Abstract
Conference Title: 2018 7th International Conference on Renewable Energy Research and Applications (ICRERA) Conference Start Date: 2018, Oct. 14 Conference End Date: 2018, Oct. 17 Conference Location: Paris, France Monitoring the operation condition of photovoltaic (PV) systems is crucial to improving their efficiency. In this paper, an effective method to supervise the DC part of PV plants under noisy environment is provided. In fact, noisy measurements make the supervision more challenging as the feature extraction of the fault is more difficult. The designed approach merges the desirable proprieties of the discrete wavelet transform and the exponentially weighted moving average scheme to appropriately detect faults in PV system. Specifically, this approach is employed to check the residuals generated by a simulation model based on a single-diode modeling for fault detection. We evaluated the efficiency of the proposed approach on a real PV system in Algeria. Results indicated that the proposed approach has good capacity in supervising the DC part of PV plants.