Reliability of large-scale grid-connected photovoltaic systems

Renewable Energy

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2334-2340

  Zini, Gabriele ^a   Mangeant, Christophe ^a   Merten, Jens ^a  

^a DIF   (France)

Author keywords

Photovoltaics; Reliability

Indexed keywords

FAULT TREE ANALYSIS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; RELIABILITY; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

BALANCE OF SYSTEMS; DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTS; MAINTENANCE PLANS; NUMBER OF COMPONENTS; PHOTOVOLTAICS; PROBABILITY ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY EQUATIONS; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE;

RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

NUMERICAL MODEL; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM; PROBABILITY; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 79954600069     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2011.01.036     Document Type: Article

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