Author/Authors :
Tarusan, S.A.A. university of malaya - UM Power Energy Dedicated Advanced Centre(UMPEDAC), Malaysia , Tarusan, S.A.A. University of Technical Malaysia Melaka - Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Malaysia , Hasanuzzaman, M. university of malaya - UM Power Energy Dedicated Advanced Centre (UMPEDAC), Malaysia , Azri, M. university of malaya - UM Power Energy Dedicated Advanced Centre (UMPEDAC), Malaysia , Azri, M. University of Technical Malaysia Melaka - Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Malaysia , Rahim, N.A. university of malaya - UM Power Energy Dedicated Advanced Centre (UMPEDAC), Malaysia
Abstract :
Solar energy is one the most popular renewable energy sources. In this paper, various types of photovoltaic cells, manufacturing countries, their efficiency of PV module and overall performance has been analysed and compared for the Asian countries. Data has been collected from the datasheets of various manufacturers in the Asian countries. It is found that the monocrystalline cells have the better performance compared to multi-crystalline cells. Chinese manufacturers are the dominants for the mono-crystalline cell production with the efficiency of 20% and 18.48% of maximum and average respectively. The highest efficiency of multi-crystalline cell production is also achieved by Chinese manufacturers with the efficiency of 19% and 17.45% maximum and average respectively. But the highest fill factor is achieved by Taiwan manufacturers with 80.89% maximum and 79.36% average for monocrystalline cells and 79.91% maximum and 78.94% average for multi-crystalline cells. It is also found that during the period of 2009 to 2011 has achieved the highest production for all types of cells types as well as rate of production is increasing day-byday
Keywords :
Renewable energy , solar energy , Photovoltaic cell , Fill factor
