Modeling and Analysis of 300 MW Photovoltaic System Using ETAP and Harmonic Filter Design

Electricity is important in our life. The majority of electricity are generated by using fossil fuel. There are various drawbacks linked with the use of fossil fuel such as emission of greenhouse gases which pollute the environment. Among all renewable energy systems, the solar photovoltaic (PV) system has remarkable results to overcomes these problems due to its availability, cheap and environment friendly. In this paper, 300 MW photovoltaic power system is designed and modeled on Electrical Transient Analysis Program (ETAP). The proposed system consists of 4 strings of photovoltaic arrays and each string of PV array is made up of 27 series connected panels and 9000 parallel connected panels. ETAP is used to perform power flow analysis and harmonic distortion analysis. Also, single-tuned passive filters are designed to reduce the effects of harmonics.