Given the diverse and irregular shapes of residential rooftops
and the common reliance on manual layout or exhaustive search methods for conventional photovoltaic array configurations—which suffer from low efficiency and difficulty in achieving optimal arrangements—this paper proposes an optimization method for residential rooftop PV arrays. Aiming to minimize the levelized cost of energy (LCOE)
it constructs an optimization model that accounts for both the self-shading effects of modules and architectural constraints. PV array configuration on irregular flat roofs is optimized using the Genetic Particle Swarm Algorithm (GA-PSO). Lastly
a number of typical irregular flat roofs of residential dwellings are used as research objects in the PV layout optimization study. As a result of precisely analyzing the panel layout’s design parameters
the PV array layout constraint optimization method presented in this paper offers reference suggestions for the appropriate spatial configuration of rooftop PV systems in complex environments. It also significantly increases the PV system’s performance and lowers its cost
achieving the ideal balance between cost and benefit. The optimal levelized cost of electricity
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