Abstract
1Renewable Energy Research Group, Department of Building Services Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hong Kong 2Institute for Solar Energy Systems, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China 3Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Northern Illinois University, 1425 W Lincoln Hwy, DeKalb, IL, USA 4Department of Environmental and Natural Resources Management, University of Patras, Agrinio, Greece
Highlights
We here would like to express our sincere gratefulness to all authors and referees who contributed a lot to this issue
If distributed PV systems and large scale PV plants do provide the end users with self-sufficiency, it is essential for scientists and engineers all over the world to further exploit solar cells with high efficiency and optimize the PV systems
Related research is needed within current technologies and innovative ideas, including design, modeling, fabrication, and characterization of and modules as well as implementation of PV systems. Scientific papers in this special issue have covered recent advances in photovoltaic. This issue contains seventeen papers on various aspects of photovoltaic technologies, which fall into following topics: (1) development, modeling, and reliability improvements of high efficiency solar cells; (2) building integrated PV systems; (3) developments in power electronics converters used in PV applications; (4) distributed generation systems consisting of PV systems and integration with smart grid and smart building; (5) power converters for photoenergy conversion
Summary
We here would like to express our sincere gratefulness to all authors and referees who contributed a lot to this issue. This issue contains seventeen papers on various aspects of photovoltaic technologies, which fall into following topics: (1) development, modeling, and reliability improvements of high efficiency solar cells; (2) building integrated PV systems; (3) developments in power electronics converters used in PV applications; (4) distributed generation systems consisting of PV systems and integration with smart grid and smart building; (5) power converters for photoenergy conversion. In “Integrating Photovoltaic Systems in Power System: Power Quality Impacts and Optimal Planning Challenges,” the authors overview the major challenges in photovoltaic based distributed generation (PVDG).
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