Anamiati, Gaetana Landberg, Lars Guerra, Gerardo Mercadé Ruiz, Pau
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EPJ Photovoltaics
The goal of this study is to monitor the performance of a photovoltaic plant by comparing its power output against others with similar characteristics, referred to as neighbours. The purpose of the 15 neighbours is to have the best reference for the performance of the plant in question, in other words, how the plant under analysis performs compared...
Weiss, Maxime Dumais, Félix Volatier, Maïté Aimez, Vincent Jaouad, Abdelatif Darnon, Maxime
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EPJ Photovoltaics
Moon exploration will require local renewable energy production system, which design needs estimations of the received solar energy as a function of the location and the installation mode. We developed a novel method to compute the solar energy received by a 1 m2 flat surface anywhere on the Moon, for any period and using four different installatio...
Daher, Daha Hassan Mathieu, Alexandre Abdallah, Asma Mouhoumed, Dek Logerais, Pierre-Olivier Gaillard, Leon Ménézo, Christophe
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EPJ Photovoltaics
Inspections of 48 photovoltaic (PV) modules within a 302.4 kWp solar array were undertaken to expose the presence of defects after 12 years of operation under the harsh environmental conditions of Djibouti. To this end, a multiple-technique testing protocol was conducted including visual inspection (VI), infrared thermography (IR), current-voltage ...
Thukaram, Akash Rudolph, Dominik Halm, Andreas Tune, Daniel
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EPJ Photovoltaics
Recently the development trend in the PV industry is towards much larger wafer formats. With increasing wafer area and the resulting increase in short-circuit current at the cell level, there is also a trend towards sub-cells (solar cell cut into smaller pieces) for module integration. Using sub-cells, the resistance losses through the connection c...
Nysted, Vilde Stueland Lindholm, Dag Selj, Josefine Kjeldstad, Torunn
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EPJ Photovoltaics
Floating photovoltaics (FPV) is rapidly emerging as a promising alternative to ground-mounted PV (GPV) where available land area is scarce or expensive. Improved cooling has often been reported as a benefit of FPV, as cell temperature is an important parameter for the performance of a PV system. However, more recent literature shows that the coolin...
Huyeng, Jonas D. Lohmüller, Elmar Shabanzadeh, Behnaz Reichel, Christian Rößler, Torsten Weber, Julian Hofmann, Marc von Kutzleben, Daniel Abdel Latif, Najwa Kraft, Achim
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EPJ Photovoltaics
Cutting silicon solar cells from their host wafer into smaller cells reduces the output current per cut cell and therefore allows for reduced ohmic losses in series interconnection at module level. This comes with a trade-off of unpassivated cutting edges, which result in power losses. This performance drop can be seen in fill factor FF and open-ci...
Jäger-Waldau, Arnulf
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EPJ Photovoltaics
In 2023 global renewable energy investments increased by 8% to USD 623 billion, with solar investments accounting for 63% or USD 393 billion (+12%). The total installed solar photovoltaic capacity exceeded 1.6 TWp at the end of 2023, with an annual newly installed capacity of more than 420 GWp. The number of countries installing 1 GWp/year or more ...
Rossi, Federico Rotondi, Leonardo Stefanelli, Maurizio Sinicropi, Adalgisa Vesce, Luigi Parisi, Maria Laura
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EPJ Photovoltaics
Sustainable energy production is one of the major goals for society to address climate change, with the aim of reducing fossil fuel consumption and greenhouse gases emissions. One of the main alternatives to burning fossil fuels is solar energy conversion; therefore, scientific research has moved towards the development of photovoltaic devices that...
Riesebeck, Florian Mathies, Florian Yoo, Danbi Trofimov, Sergei Unger, Eva Becker, Christiane
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EPJ Photovoltaics
Surface textures are indispensable to minimize optical losses in perovskite-based solar cells. However, the solution-processing of perovskite layers is often not compatible with textured substrates, and little is known about the film growth thereon. This study aims to elucidate the growth process of perovskite layers from solution on textured subst...
Mirletz, Heather Ovaitt, Silvana Sridhar, Seetharaman Barnes, Teresa M.
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EPJ Photovoltaics
Global decarbonization requires an unprecedented scale-up of photovoltaic (PV) manufacturing and deployment. The material demand and eventual end of life management associated with multi-TW scale deployment poses many challenges. Circular Economy (CE) and it's associated R-Actions (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle) have been proposed to mitigate end of life ...
