ENERGY OPTIMIZATION OF PV PANELS SIZE AT SERBIAN ZNEB AND PNEB

Abstract

In this paper, the possibilities to decrease energy consumption of a residential building in Serbian conditions are analyzed The building with electrical energy generated by PV system is investigated The major aim of the optimization of PV area is to determine the area of the PV array and to minimize the consumption of energy. The residential buildings with variable hot water consumption and PV embodied energy are investigated to achieve Zero-Net Energy Building or Positive-Net Energy Building. The buildings are simulated in EnergyP/us environment. Open Studio plug-in in Google SketchUp was used for buildings design, Hooke-Jeeves algorithm for optimization, and GENOPT software for software execution control. The obtained results give the optimal value of PV array. On that way, the fossil energy consumption and C02 emission is minimized.