Seasonal based energy performance analyzes of Cd-Te and c-Si photovoltaic modules

Author

Basoglu, Mustafa Engin ; Kazdaloglu, Abdulvehhap ; Erfidan, Tarik ; Bilgin, Mehmet Zeki ; Cakir, Bekir

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Kocaeli Univ., Kocaeli, Turkey

fYear

2015

fDate

10-13 June 2015

Firstpage

208

Lastpage

212

Abstract

This paper presents a seasonal based comparative study about energy performances of c-Si and Cd-Te solar panels under same real weather conditions. For this purpose, two on-grid photovoltaic power systems (PPS) were installed on the different metal construction with same tilt angle and monitored between December 2013 and November 2014. Energy performance comparison has been carried out by using performance ratio (PR) and mean array efficiency (MAE) and energy performance index specified in IEC 61724, normalized energy and capacity factor (CF). It is shown that since temperature coefficient of power in Cd-Te is lower than that of c-Si, Cd-Te array performs better than another array. Some key result of this study can be summarized as follows: Generated energy of Cd-Te is higher than that of c-Si array by rate of 9.2%-10.8 within measurement period. In addition, due to the low dependency on temperature, PR, MAE and CF result in higher value than c-Si array as indicated in literature.

Keywords

cadmium; photovoltaic power systems; silicon; solar cells; tellurium; Cd-Te; IEC 61724; MAE; PPS; Si; capacity factor; mean array efficiency; performance ratio; photovoltaic modules; photovoltaic power systems; solar panels; Arrays; Performance analysis; Radiation effects; Temperature measurement; Energy performance; capacity factor; mean array efficiency; performance ratio; solar panel;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Environment and Electrical Engineering (EEEIC), 2015 IEEE 15th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Rome

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-7992-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EEEIC.2015.7165542

Filename

7165542