Effects of environmental conditions on photovoltaic module measurements

Author

Lay-Ekuakille, Aime ; Vergallo, P. ; Arnesano, A. ; Morello, R. ; De Capua, C.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Innovation Eng., Univ. of Salento Lecce, Lecce, Italy

fYear

2013

fDate

3-5 Dec. 2013

Firstpage

933

Lastpage

936

Abstract

This work illustrates the study on two commercially available photovoltaic modules: a copper indium diselenide (CIS) module and a cadmium telluride (CdTe) one, under real operating conditions in order to investigate on the effects of environmental conditions on their energy production. Dusts and aeriform materials can influence long term yield of photovoltaic modules. There is a specific loss due to loss since the difference losses that reduce the power are due to: mismatch, dusts, array temperature, inverter and wiring.

Keywords

II-VI semiconductors; cadmium compounds; copper compounds; dust; environmental factors; invertors; solar cells; ternary semiconductors; wide band gap semiconductors; wiring; CIS module; CdTe; CuInSe₂-CdTe; aeriform material; array temperature; cadmium telluride; copper indium diselenide; dust; energy production; inverter; photovoltaic module measurement; wiring; Humidity; Photovoltaic systems; Sensors; Silicon; Temperature; Temperature measurement; environmental conditions; photovoltaic;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Sensing Technology (ICST), 2013 Seventh International Conference on

Conference_Location

Wellington

ISSN

2156-8065

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-5220-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSensT.2013.6727786

Filename

6727786