Benchmarking concentrating photovoltaic systems

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7773, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Duerr, Fabian ^a   Muthirayan, Buvaneshwari ^a   Meuret, Youri ^a   Thienpont, Hugo ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Concentrating photovoltaics; Optical modeling; Performance benchmarking; System modeling

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS PROGRAMS; COMPUTER AIDED MODELING; CONCENTRATING PHOTOVOLTAIC; COST PERFORMANCE; ECONOMIC VIABILITY; ENERGY YIELDS; FIGURE OF MERIT; GEOGRAPHICAL POSITIONS; LOCAL DEPENDENCE; MODULAR PROGRAMMING; OPTICAL MODELING; PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKING; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEMS; PHOTOVOLTAIC TECHNOLOGY; PHOTOVOLTAICS; PROFITABILITY ANALYSIS; RAY TRACING CALCULATIONS; SOLAR ENERGY SYSTEMS; SOURCE MODELING; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; SYSTEM MODELING;

BENCHMARKING; DESIGN; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; PROFITABILITY; SOLAR ENERGY; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS;

EID: 77957827341     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.860554     Document Type: Conference Paper

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