AbstractsPhysics

Aruba is a small island in the Caribbean. It has 101,484 inhabitants and its main income is tourism. As an island it is dependent on fossil fuel to generate its electric energy. As a result of the increasing oil price, it is attractive to be an island that generates its own electric energy through sustainable generators. This is the reason that the Aruban government made an ambitious plan to make the Aruba a self-sustainable island by 2020. To accomplish this plan, one of the goals that need to be accomplished is, to know what the current status is on integration of Photovoltaic (PV) systems is, and what is needed for in the future for integration more PV systems. To summarized; the main goal of this thesis is to know how many PV systems can be integrated in the current grid without modification and what modification is needed to integrate more PV systems into the grid.