Energy production of photovoltaic systems: Fixed, tracking, and concentrating

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 306-313

  Gómez Gil, Francisco Javier ^a   Wang, Xiaoting ^b   Barnett, Allen ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BURGOS   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Concentrating photovoltaics; Energy production; Performance ratio; Photovoltaics; Sun tracking

Indexed keywords

PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS;

ENERGY PRODUCTIONS; IDEAL SYSTEMS; MODULE EFFICIENCY; PERFORMANCE DATA; PERFORMANCE RATIO; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEMS; PHOTOVOLTAICS; SUN-TRACKING;

SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

EID: 82355185727     PISSN: 13640321     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2011.07.156     Document Type: Review

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