TY - GEN
T1 - Degradation rate evaluation of multiple PV technologies from 59,000 modules representing 252,000 modules in four climatic regions of the United States
AU - Raupp, Christopher
AU - Libby, Cara
AU - Tatapudi, Sai
AU - Srinivasan, Devarajan
AU - Kuitche, Joseph
AU - Bicer, Bulent
AU - Tamizhmani, Govindasamy
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 IEEE.
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - With the recent extension of the U.S. federal investment tax credit (ITC), more photovoltaic (PV) power plants are expected to be installed in ever increasing capacities in various climatic regions of the United States over the next few years. While the major industry-leading technology has been mono- and poly- crystalline silicon (c-Si), great strides in the commercial development of other PV technologies (such as cadmium telluride [CdTe] and heterojunction with intrinsic thin layer [HIT]) have been made, and a number of power plants are now being powered by these other technologies. In this study, performance and reliability data of strings and modules were collected from the fielded power plants consisting of different module technologies (mono-Si, poly-Si, HIT, amorphous Si [a-Si], CdTe and copper indium gallium diselenide [CIGS]). The collected data were analyzed to determine the degradation rates in different climatological regions of the United States. This paper evaluates the degradation rates of approximately 59,000 PV modules from 26 operational PV power plants in various climatological regions of the U.S. (Arizona-Hot-dry; California-Temperate; ColoradoTemperate; New York-Cold-dry; Texas-Hot-humid).
AB - With the recent extension of the U.S. federal investment tax credit (ITC), more photovoltaic (PV) power plants are expected to be installed in ever increasing capacities in various climatic regions of the United States over the next few years. While the major industry-leading technology has been mono- and poly- crystalline silicon (c-Si), great strides in the commercial development of other PV technologies (such as cadmium telluride [CdTe] and heterojunction with intrinsic thin layer [HIT]) have been made, and a number of power plants are now being powered by these other technologies. In this study, performance and reliability data of strings and modules were collected from the fielded power plants consisting of different module technologies (mono-Si, poly-Si, HIT, amorphous Si [a-Si], CdTe and copper indium gallium diselenide [CIGS]). The collected data were analyzed to determine the degradation rates in different climatological regions of the United States. This paper evaluates the degradation rates of approximately 59,000 PV modules from 26 operational PV power plants in various climatological regions of the U.S. (Arizona-Hot-dry; California-Temperate; ColoradoTemperate; New York-Cold-dry; Texas-Hot-humid).
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U2 - 10.1109/PVSC.2017.8366611
DO - 10.1109/PVSC.2017.8366611
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85048467264
T3 - 2017 IEEE 44th Photovoltaic Specialist Conference, PVSC 2017
SP - 2186
EP - 2191
BT - 2017 IEEE 44th Photovoltaic Specialist Conference, PVSC 2017
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 44th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialist Conference, PVSC 2017
Y2 - 25 June 2017 through 30 June 2017
ER -