A simple photovoltaic panel model: Characterization procedure and evaluation of the role of environmental measurements

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 61, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 2632-2641

  Cristaldi, Loredana ^a   Faifer, Marco ^a   Rossi, Marco ^a   Ponci, Ferdinanda ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Maintenance; modeling; photovoltaic (PV) cell measurements; PV power systems; solar energy

Indexed keywords

CELL MEASUREMENT; CHARACTERIZATION PROCEDURES; CONTROL FUNCTIONS; CRITICAL ISSUES; ENERGY PRODUCTIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL MEASUREMENTS; EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATIONS; LARGE PLANTS; ON-LINE ANALYSIS; PHOTOVOLTAIC; PHOTOVOLTAIC PANELS; POWER ARCHITECTURES; POWER NETWORKS; POWER PRODUCTION; PRELIMINARY DESIGN; PV PANEL; PV POWER SYSTEMS; SOLAR PLANT; SUPPORT DESIGN; SYSTEM EFFICIENCY;

MAINTENANCE; MODELS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 84866516329     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2012.2199196     Document Type: Article

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