Abstract

Performance of nine commercial solar photovoltaic (PV) panels from different manufacturers with combination of different manufacturing materials and technologies are studied under the environmental conditions of the Coal City of India. The results give an indication of the comparative performance of different PV technologies under the aforesaid location’s environmental condition which helps to choose the best suitable PV technology for the Coal City of India. This procedure is commonly known as technical mapping of solar PV. Performance of PV panels made of Maxeon Cell Technology, heterojunction with intrinsic thin layer (HIT), mono-crystalline silicon (Mono C-Si), poly-crystalline silicon (Poly C-Si), Micromorph, SCHOTT, amorphous silicon (a-Si), copper indium gallium selenide (CIGS) and cadmium telluride (CdTe) technologies is analysed. Meteorological and PV panel parameters required for the study are collected from National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) renewable energy resource website (Surface Meteorology and Solar Energy) and the data sheets of commercial PV panel manufacturers, respectively. The outcome of this study concludes that modules made of amorphous silicon technology perform better under the typical temperature variant and dry environmental condition of the Coal City of India. The same PV technology is also best suited considering life cycle assessment and global warming impact point of view for the concerned site.

Highlights

  • Most of the countries in the world are facing serious shortages of energy due to inadequate reserves of non-renewable sources of energy

  • The main objective of this paper is to find out which PV technology shows the best performance under the specific environmental condition of Dhanbad (Coal City of India)

  • RPTC is the reduction in power output due to temperature correction in %, PR is the performance ratio in %, andYF is the yield factor in kWh/kW

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Introduction

Most of the countries in the world are facing serious shortages of energy due to inadequate reserves of non-renewable sources of energy. Solar energy is one of the most important fields of renewable energy. Grid interactive solar PV systems are gradually becoming a more feasible alternative for electricity generation due to technology improvement and drop in component prices in comparison with the escalating cost of fossil fuels (Nanda and Raturi 2013). It is a budding area of research to evaluate the accurate performance of PV system

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