A solar power station is a facility that generates electricity by converting sunlight into electricity using solar panels, which consist of multiple solar cells. These stations can range in size from a few kilowatts to hundreds of megawatts and can be installed on the ground, rooftops, or walls to harness direct sunlight efficiently.
A photovoltaic power station, also known as a solar park, solar farm, or solar power plant, is a large-scale grid-connected photovoltaic power system (PV system) designed for the supply of merchant power.
In the power system’s transmission and transform process, solar transformers played an essential role in varying the AC voltage while maintaining an AC rate constant. The transformer increases the voltage at the generator’s terminal to transmit a specific amount of power.
Due to the limitation of inverter capacity, solar substation generally connects PV modules and inverters into a minimum power generation unit, and uses double split step-up transformers to form a power generation unit module, i.e. one step-up transformer is connected in parallel with two sets of inverter minimum power generation units.
Transformers are critical components in solar-energy production and distribution. Historically, transformers have “stepped-up” or “stepped-down” energy from non-renewable sources. There are different types of solar transformers including distribution, station, sub-station, pad mounted and grounding.
Inverters and transformers used in photovoltaic power stations are one of the important nuclear components of photovoltaic power stations. Inverters realise the conversion from DC to AC, and transformers realise the transmission and utilisation of electrical energy.