Comparative study of the performance of field-aged photovoltaic modules located in a hot and humid environment

Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 2376-2381

  Sorloaica Hickman, Nicoleta ^a   Davis, Kris ^a   Leyte Vidal, Albert ^a   Kurtz, Sarah ^b   Jordan, Dirk ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

degradation rate; Performance Rati; Photovoltaic; PVUSA regression; reliability

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATED TESTS; ANALYTICAL METHOD; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; DEGRADATION RATE; ENERGY PRODUCTIONS; FAILURE MECHANISM; FIELD MEASUREMENT; FLORIDA; HOT AND HUMID CLIMATE; HUMID ENVIRONMENT; LONG TERM MONITORING; MODULE RELIABILITY; OUTDOOR EXPOSURE; PERFORMANCE DEGRADATION; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENTS; PERFORMANCE RATI; PERFORMANCE RATIO; PERFORMANCE VALUE; PHOTOVOLTAIC; PHOTOVOLTAIC MODULES; POWER DEGRADATION; PVUSA REGRESSION; TIME-PERIODS;

DEGRADATION; NAMEPLATES; RELIABILITY;

REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84869393308     PISSN: 01608371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PVSC.2012.6318076     Document Type: Conference Paper

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