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N. Marc-Alain Mutombo, Freddie Inambao, Glen Bright
The conversion of solar irradiance into electricity by a photovoltaic module (PV) is 6? 7% of the incoming energy from the sun depending on the type of technology and the environmental parameters. More than 80% of incoming energy from the sun is reflecte...
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Tabassum Kanwal, Saif Ur Rehman, Tariq Ali, Khalid Mahmood, Santos Gracia Villar, Luis Alonso Dzul Lopez and Imran Ashraf
Agriculture is a critical domain, where technology can have a significant impact on increasing yields, improving crop quality, and reducing environmental impact. The use of renewable energy sources such as solar power in agriculture has gained momentum i...
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Heangwoo Lee, Sowon Han and Janghoo Seo
Some recent research in the area of light shelves has been focused on applying photovoltaic modules to light shelves to save building energy. However, due to the modules installed on the light shelf reflectors, most such light shelves have failed to impr...
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Hyunsoo Lim, Seong Hyeon Cho, Jiyeon Moon, Da Yeong Jun and Sung Hyun Kim
In the photovoltaic (PV) module manufacturing process, cell-to-module (CTM) loss is inevitably caused by the optical loss, and it generally leads to the output power loss of about 2~3%. It is known that the CTM loss rate can be reduced by increasing the ...
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Mohamed Ghorab, Libing Yang, Evgueniy Entchev, Euy-Joon Lee, Eun-Chul Kang, Yu-Jin Kim, Sangmu Bae, Yujin Nam and Kwonye Kim
Hybrid renewable energy systems are subject to extensive research around the world and different designs have found their way to the market and have been commercialized. These systems usually employ multiple components, both renewable and conventional, c...
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Marthoz Angulo-Calderón, Iván Salgado-Tránsito, Iván Trejo-Zúñiga, Carlos Paredes-Orta, Sajjad Kesthkar and Arturo Díaz-Ponce
In recent decades, advances in the development of solar tracking systems (STSs) have led to concentrating solar technologies to increase their energy conversion efficiency. These systems, however, still have areas of opportunity or improving their perfor...
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Isabel Santiago, Jorge Luis Esquivel-Martin, David Trillo-Montero, Rafael Jesús Real-Calvo and Víctor Pallarés-López
In this work, the automatic classification of daily irradiance profiles registered in a photovoltaic installation located in the south of Spain was carried out for a period of nine years, with a sampling frequency of 5 min, and the subsequent analysis of...
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Slawomir Gulkowski and Ewelina Krawczak
Thin film Cu(In,Ga)Se2 (CIGS)-based solar cells with relatively high efficiency and low material usage might become a promising alternative for crystalline silicon technology. The most challenging task nowadays is to decrease the PV module fabrication co...
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Xiaoting Wang and Allen Barnett
PV research is making efforts to create new cell and module efficiency records, while the manufacturing industry and the downstream project developers want to choose the optimal efficiency point where the best economics can be achieved at the system leve...
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Kensuke Nishioka, So Pyay Moe and Yasuyuki Ota
Not all sunlight irradiated on the surface of a photovoltaic (PV) module can reach the cells in the PV module. This loss reduces the conversion efficiency of the PV module. The main factors of this loss are the reflection and soiling on the surface of th...
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