Title :
Performance assessment of a grid-connected mc-Si PV system made up of silicon material from different manufacturing routes
Author :
Tayyib, Muhammad ; Odden, Jan Ove ; Ramchander, N. ; Prakash, M.B. ; Surendra, T.S. ; Muneeshwar, R. ; Sarma, A.V. ; Ramanjaneyulu, M. ; Saetre, Tor Oskar
Author_Institution :
Univ. of Agder, Grimstad, Norway
Abstract :
Summarises the performance of an Elkem Solar photovoltaic (PV) system installed in the Sunbelt Region (between 35 North and 35 South) in Hyderabad, India, which has been fully operational since August 2012. The PV system consists of 28 multicrystalline silicon PV modules made from the standard Siemens process and from material produced by a metallurgical route - the Elkem Solar Silicon (ESS™) process. A comparative performance study of the ESS™ modules with respect to standard polysilicon has been carried out under the various climatic and solar radiation conditions at the location. The present study suggests that the ESS™ PV modules have a slightly better performance than standard polysilicon modules as a function of solar irradiation, and thereby the total kWh generated has also been higher for the ESS™ modules.
Keywords :
elemental semiconductors; photovoltaic power systems; silicon; solar power stations; solar radiation; ESS™ modules; Elkem solar photovoltaic system; Elkem solar silicon process; India; Si; Siemens process; grid-connected photovoltaic system; metallurgical route; multicrystalline silicon PV modules; performance assessment; polysilicon modules; solar radiation; Photovoltaic cells; Power generation; Production; Silicon; Standards; Temperature measurement; Elkem Solar; modules performance;
Conference_Titel :
Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC), 2013 IEEE 39th
Conference_Location :
Tampa, FL
DOI :
10.1109/PVSC.2013.6744110
