Efficiency and cost trade-offs for designing module integrated converter photovoltaic systems

2012 IEEE Power and Energy Conference at Illinois, PECI 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Kim, Katherine A ^a   Lertburapa, Sutchaya ^a   Xu, Chenyang ^a   Krein, Philip T ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST TRADE-OFF; CURRENT SENSORS; ENERGY CAPTURE; INTEGRATED CONVERTERS; MAXIMUM POWER POINT TRACKING; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEMS; POWER PRODUCTION; PV SYSTEM; SYSTEM COSTS;

COMMERCE; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS;

COSTS;

EID: 84860910865     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PECI.2012.6184585     Document Type: Conference Paper

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