Applications and field tests of bifacial solar modules

Author

Joge, T. ; Eguchi, Y. ; Imazu, Y. ; Araki, I. ; Uematsu, T. ; Matsukuma, K.

Author_Institution

Hitachi Eng. & Production Div., Hitachi Ltd., Ibaraki, Japan

fYear

2002

fDate

19-24 May 2002

Firstpage

1549

Lastpage

1552

Abstract

In order to realize a photovoltaic (PV) system that is low cost and flexible in terms of installation, the authors have studied the vertical installation of bifacial solar modules. Simulations of output power and field testing were carried out to evaluate daily and yearly output power when bifacial modules are vertically installed at various azimuth angles. The yearly-generated power by a vertically installed bifacial module was found to be about 1.4 times larger than that of a vertically installed mono-facial module at the test location. Some applications of bifacial modules, such as fence-integrated PV systems and pole mounted PV systems, were successfully demonstrated on the basis of these results.

Keywords

photovoltaic power systems; solar cell arrays; testing; PV system; azimuth angles; bifacial solar modules; fence-integrated PV systems; field testing; field tests; output power simulation; photovoltaic system; pole mounted PV systems; test location; vertical installation; vertically installed mono-facial module; Azimuth; Costs; Databases; Mass production; Meteorology; Photovoltaic systems; Power generation; Solar power generation; Testing; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, 2002. Conference Record of the Twenty-Ninth IEEE

ISSN

1060-8371

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7471-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PVSC.2002.1190908

Filename

1190908