Multi-pronged analysis of degradation rates of photovoltaic modules and arrays deployed in Florida

Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 702-712

  Davis, K O ^a   Kurtz, S R ^b   Jordan, D C ^b   Wohlgemuth, J H ^b   Sorloaica Hickman, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

archived data; degradation rate; energy yield; Performance Ratio

Indexed keywords

ARCHIVED DATA; DEGRADATION RATE; ENERGY YIELDS; ENVIRONMENTAL DATA; LONG TERM PERFORMANCE; PERFORMANCE RATIO; PHOTOVOLTAIC MODULES; SENSOR CALIBRATION;

INFRARED IMAGING;

DEGRADATION;

EID: 84878182892     PISSN: 10627995     EISSN: 1099159X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pip.2154     Document Type: Article

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