Possible development of photovoltaics with increasing e-mobility in Mexico

Abstract

This master thesis investigates the impacts and obstacles for the development of renewable energies with special focus on photovoltaics and electric vehicles. To do that, two photovoltaic systems shall be simulated and the measured data compared to the simulation results. The gathered data shall be used for optimizations for several scenarios, like adding a battery, adding electric vehicles and adding grid outages with different outage durations. The results of the optimizations shall be used for re-simulation the two photovoltaic systems and the results compared, to validate the feasibility of the optimizations. The goal shall be to extract recommendations of how to design photovoltaic systems in the most economical way in the Mexican environment. Therefore, batteries are not economic for domestic use but can decrease the net present cost for commercial buildings significantly. The batteries become more crucial if outages occur, whereas the importance rises with the duration of outages. In some scenarios with the worst-case outages, batteries can be economically useful for domestic use as well. If electric vehicles are added, in some scenarios the battery size can be reduced. Furthermore, different charging algorithms and their impact are investigated for the battery and the electric vehicles.

Date of Award	2025
Original language	English
Supervisor	Wilhelm Süßenbacher (Supervisor)