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

fYear

2013

fDate

16-21 June 2013

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC), 2013 IEEE 39th

Conference_Location

Tampa, FL

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PVSC.2013.6744110

Filename

6744110