Technical evaluation of Solar Cells Inc. CdTe module and array at NREL

Author

Kroposki, B. ; Strand, T. ; Hansen, R. ; Powell, R. ; Sasala, R.

Author_Institution

Nat. Renewable Energy Lab., Golden, CO, USA

fYear

1996

fDate

13-17 May 1996

Firstpage

969

Lastpage

972

Abstract

The Engineering and Technology Validation Team at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) conducts in-situ technical evaluations of polycrystalline thin-film photovoltaic (PV) modules and arrays. This paper focuses on the technical evaluation of Solar Cells Inc. (SCI) cadmium telluride (CdTe) module and array performance by attempting to correlate individual module and array performance. This is done by examining the performance and stability of the modules and array over a period of more than one year. Temperature coefficients for module and array parameters (P_max, V_oc, V_max, I_sc, I_max) are also calculated

Keywords

II-VI semiconductors; cadmium compounds; semiconductor thin films; solar cell arrays; solar cells; CdTe; CdTe array; CdTe module; Engineering and Technology Validation Team; National Renewable Energy Laboratory; Solar Cells; array performance; individual module performance; performance correlation; polycrystalline thin-film PV modules; temperature coefficients; Cadmium compounds; Laboratories; Photovoltaic cells; Photovoltaic systems; Power engineering and energy; Renewable energy resources; Solar power generation; Stability; Temperature; Transistors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, 1996., Conference Record of the Twenty Fifth IEEE

Conference_Location

Washington, DC

ISSN

0160-8371

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3166-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PVSC.1996.564291

Filename

564291