STUDY OF THE POTENTIAL OF A FLOATING PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM ON THE SANTO ANASTÁCIO RESERVOIR TO OFFSET THE CONSUMPTION OF THE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ

Abstract

This work evaluates the Floating Photovoltaic (FVF) potential of the Santo Anastácio reservoir for the consumption compensation study of the Pici campus of the Federal University of Ceará (UFC). The research analyzes consumption for the year 2022 in order to calculate the size of the FVF plants in the different compensation scenarios and also to determine the limit area that the plant can occupy in the water mirror to mitigate impacts on the local ecosystem. The annual PV generation is then calculated using the PVsyst software, considering scenarios with bifacial modules activated and deactivated and with losses in the system. In this way, three scenarios are defined, where the first represents 50% compensation of consumption, the second 75% compensation and the third 100% compensation. Therefore, the powers in the different scenarios are: 2,833 kWp, 4,237 kWp and 5,666 kWp, occupying 37.44%, 56% and 74.8% of the available area respectively. Thus, the annual generation for each scenario without losses is 5,843,896 kWh, 8,764,356 kWh and 11,685,900 kWh, respectively. When using PVsyst and considering losses, scenario 1 gives 4,782,138 kWh without bifaciality and 5,129,181 kWh with bifaciality, scenario 02 gives 7,158,145 kWh without bifaciality and 7,694,455 kWh with bifaciality and scenario 03 gives 9,433,748 kWh without bifaciality and 10,148,572 kWh with bifaciality, where losses vary between 12.20 % and 19.27 % in relation to ideal generation.