Simelane, Sengiphile NMudau, Unarine BDuma, Talent C2019-03-072019-03-072018-06Simelane, S.N., Mudau, U.B. and Duma, T.C. 2018. Performance analysis of CSIR’s solar PV plants. 5th Southern African Solar Energy Conference (SASEC 2018), 25-27 June 2018, Blue Waters Hotel, Durban, South Africa978-0-7972-1765-2https://www.sasec.org.za/documents/SASEC2018_proceedings.pdfhttps://www.sasec.org.za/full_papers/100.pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10204/10759Paper presented during the 5th Southern African Solar Energy Conference (SASEC 2018), 25-27 June 2018, Blue Waters Hotel, Durban, South AfricaThe Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in Pretoria is rapidly reducing reliance on energy supply from Tshwane Municipality with the implementation of renewable energy projects as part of its drive to demonstrate the potential of renewable energy in the South African energy industry. South Africa faces a two-fold energy challenge where it struggles to meet its electricity demand, while being one of the largest emitters of greenhouse gases in Africa. One of the CSIR Energy Centre objective is to provide some expert intervention in the South African energy sector, with focus placed on expanding the energy system in order to meet demand while becoming less carbon intensive. This paper analyses the performance of CSIR's first three photovoltaic projects. The paper focuses on energy yield, performance ratio and the levelised cost of energy (LCOE).enSolar PVPerformance RatioLCOEEnergy autonomousEnergy yieldConference PresentationSimelane, S. N., Mudau, U. B., & Duma, T. C. (2018). Performance analysis of CSIR’s solar PV plants. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/10759Simelane, Sengiphile N, Unarine B Mudau, and Talent C Duma. "Performance analysis of CSIR’s solar PV plants." (2018): http://hdl.handle.net/10204/10759Simelane SN, Mudau UB, Duma TC, Performance analysis of CSIR’s solar PV plants; 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/10759 .TY - Conference Presentation AU - Simelane, Sengiphile N AU - Mudau, Unarine B AU - Duma, Talent C AB - The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in Pretoria is rapidly reducing reliance on energy supply from Tshwane Municipality with the implementation of renewable energy projects as part of its drive to demonstrate the potential of renewable energy in the South African energy industry. South Africa faces a two-fold energy challenge where it struggles to meet its electricity demand, while being one of the largest emitters of greenhouse gases in Africa. One of the CSIR Energy Centre objective is to provide some expert intervention in the South African energy sector, with focus placed on expanding the energy system in order to meet demand while becoming less carbon intensive. This paper analyses the performance of CSIR's first three photovoltaic projects. The paper focuses on energy yield, performance ratio and the levelised cost of energy (LCOE). DA - 2018-06 DB - ResearchSpace DP - CSIR KW - Solar PV KW - Performance Ratio KW - LCOE KW - Energy autonomous KW - Energy yield LK - https://researchspace.csir.co.za PY - 2018 SM - 978-0-7972-1765-2 T1 - Performance analysis of CSIR’s solar PV plants TI - Performance analysis of CSIR’s solar PV plants UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10204/10759 ER -