Achievements and Challenges of Solar Electricity from Photovoltaics

Handbook of Photovoltaic Science and Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1-38

  Hegedus, Steven ^a   Luque, Antonio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO DE ENERGÍA SOLAR   (Spain)

Author keywords

"standard test conditions" or STC rating peak power output of solar cell, in laboratory or module; Collecting sunlight, tilt, orientation, tracking and shading; Human development index (HDI) versus per capita kW usage in year 2000; Photovoltaics (PV), empowering technology generating electricity for the human race, range of applications, scales, climates and geographic locations; Photovoltaics, and achievements and challenges of solar electricity; Primary energy source for electrical generation, radioactivity in the form of uranium; PV technology generating direct current (DC) electrical power measured in watts (W) or kilowatts (kW) from semiconductors, illuminated by photons; Status PV, outlining challenges for it becoming a TW scale energy source; Technology, changing the way we think about energy; Ultimate goal for PV reaching grid parity without subsidies

Indexed keywords

EID: 81855214393     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470974704.ch1     Document Type: Chapter

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