Self-shading losses of fixed free-standing PV arrays

Renewable Energy

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 3211-3216

  Brecl, Kristijan ^a   Topič, Marko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Losses; PV system; Shading

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL EUROPE; EMPIRICAL EQUATIONS; ENERGY LOSS; ENERGY YIELDS; PARAMETER MODIFICATION; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEMS; PV ARRAYS; PV MODULES; PV SYSTEM; ROW DISTANCE; SELF-SHADING; SHADING; SIMULATION MODEL; SLOVENIA; WIDTH RATIO;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; ENERGY DISSIPATION; IRRADIATION; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS;

PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS;

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ENERGY USE; IRRADIATION; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM; SHADING;

LJUBLJANA; SLOVENIA;

EID: 79957847253     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2011.03.011     Document Type: Article

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