A Software Tool for Optimal Sizing of PV Systems in Malaysia

Table 2

Comparison with HOMER.

	PV.MY	HOMER
Simulating the designed system	Yes	No
Exporting the optimum tilt angles	Yes	No
DC-DC chopper consideration (rating/cost)	Yes	No
Dumped energy calculation	Yes	No
Import solar data files	xls and txt	Only txt
PV array configuration	Yes	No
Time to search for the optimum size	72 s	531 ms