The world population and consequently the global need for food continue to grow. At the same time, areas will be used to generate clean electricity to cope with climate change and global warming. The combination of crop production and solar photovoltaics in the form of “agrivoltaic technology” offers advantages for both sides that provide an adequa...
Upscaling techniques are applied to estimate the total power feed-in by PV systems in control areas by grid operators. In order to improve the real-time upscaling of PV power production in the control area of the German transmission system operator TransnetBW we set up a network of 40 solar irradiance measurement stations in southern Germany. The m...
In this work, we report a cracking mechanism occurring on shingle solar cells in PV modules subjected to thermal cycling. Experimental investigations of six different ECAs show that the positions of cracks are precisely limited to the applied ECA in the joint and the occurrence confined to the rear side of the solar cells. Structural mechanic simul...
The digitalisation of the Architecture, Engineering and Construction domain introduced new methods for digital collaboration, i.e. Building Information Modelling (BIM). While this method focuses on building data, the distribution of digital product models is still problematic, complicating uniform product searches and automated product data process...
The aim of project SCOPE is to support and facilitate the planning and operation of energy-efficient buildings through digital processes with a focus on the building envelope. The project consortium has developed a methodology that automatically prepares product data so that planners no longer have to fill it in software applications manually. Inst...
We present simulation results on the partial shading behavior of four PV module layout containing three different solar cell sizes. Two types of shingle interconnection are compared to the widely used “butterfly” layout for half-cut solar cells and the conventional solar cell interconnection of 60 full size solar cells. For the LT spice simulations...
The power degradation and failure of photovoltaic (PV) modules can be caused by changes in the mechanical properties of the polymeric components during the module lifetime. This paper introduces instrumented nanoindentation as a method to investigate the mechanical properties of module materials such as polymeric encapsulants. To this end, nanoinde...
We introduce a photonic color concept for integrated photovoltaic modules. Taking up the inspiration from the Morpho butterfly with its brightly colored wings, we developed this photonic concept further to achieve an improved angular independent color effect, suitability for module integration, and compatibility with industrial production processes...
