Data related to crystalline photovoltaic plant performance in the semi-arid climate of India

This article presents performance data concerning a 1MW crystalline photovoltaic (PV) plant installed in the semi-arid climate of India. Data includes the daily average samples from January 2012 to February 2016, related to solar irradiance on the plane of the array, electrical energy injected into the grid, reference yield, final yield, and the performance ratio. Furthermore, the decomposition time series for the performance ratio by applying the classical seasonal decomposition (CSD), Holt-Winters seasonal model (HW), and Seasonal and Trend decomposition using Loess (STL) is also provided for quantifying of the degradation rate of the PV system. The data are provided in the supplementary file included in this article. The dataset is related to the paper entitled “Performance and degradation assessment of large-scale grid-connected solar photovoltaic power plant in tropical semi-arid environment of India.” [1].