Khamsin effects on the solar power plants in Djibouti

Like as the countries of Subsaharian in Africa, the Republic of Djibouti is committed to meeting the challenge of energy supply. Of all the renewable energies, solar photovoltaic is particularly appropriate for the African continent because this continent has a favorable potential solar for the development of this form of energy. Like other industrial processes, a photovoltaic system can be subjected to various defects or anomalies leading to a decrease the system performance or his stopping total. Djibouti is located geographically on the path of « Khamsin ». The Khamsin is a dry, hot and sandy wind. It has bad effects on energy production in the solar power plants when the sand settles on the photovoltaic panels. To perform monitoring and fault diagnosis on the solar power plant, in this paper, we propose a model, which taking into account the effects of Khamsin and the abnormally high temperature in Djibouti.  A comparison between an electrical fault and the effects of the Khamsin to the photovoltaic system is also presented. With the developed model, we can simulate of the energy production under different environmental parameters.Experimental measurements and simulation results are given for validating the proposed model.