Long-term performance study of united solar PV modules in hot and humid climate of Florida

Author

Dhere, Neelkanth G. ; Kaul, Ashwani ; Pethe, Shirish A.

Author_Institution

Florida Solar Energy Center, Cocoa, FL, USA

fYear

2011

fDate

19-24 June 2011

Abstract

Large scale deployment of PV modules that are reliable with consistent performance will greatly help in their commercialization and in reducing the green house gases that are produced by the emissions from fossil fuels. In this paper, the results obtained during the long-term testing of United Solar triple junction a-Si:H PV modules are presented. During the long term testing the observed performance variation of +1.27% and +0.22% respectively per annum for positive and negative arrays has been determined. Estimated energy yield of 1452 kWhr/kWp/Yr has also been determined. This study indicates that these a-Si:H modules have continued to show good performance without noticeable degradation in the hot and humid climate of Florida.

Keywords

air pollution control; amorphous semiconductors; climatology; elemental semiconductors; environmental factors; humidity; silicon; solar cell arrays; Florida; Si:H; United solar triple junction PV module; energy yield; green house gas emission reduction; hot climate; humid climate; large scale PV module deployment; long-term performance study; long-term testing; negative arrays; performance variation; positive arrays; Arrays; Degradation; Photovoltaic systems; Reliability; Silicon; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC), 2011 37th IEEE

Conference_Location

Seattle, WA

ISSN

0160-8371

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-9966-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PVSC.2011.6186603

Filename

6186603