Solar Electric Technology Research Articles

Reliability planning for solar electric power generation

Planning for electric power system reliability requires strategic changes when large-scale use of solar electric generation technologies is contemplated. Bulk storage will be required in any long-term evolution of power systems that are dominated by baseload central station plants. The basic relations among loads, conversion technologies, storage, and reliability are characterized. The responses of systems to exogenous uncertainties are studied. Solar electric technologies produce a more diffuse risk profile than systems dominated by central station plants. This makes solar electric power generation more resilient to unplanned disturbances.

Electro 77 “solar energy: A status report”

This is a symposium of four talks by outstanding leaders in the field. Because this is the first program of this subject at our general meeting, it is designed to introduce the subject to the community of EE's. The opening talk, in presenting an over-view, displays the scope and emphases of the ERDA program, factors that are little known outside the active participants in the field. The application to heating and cooling of buildings is the nearest one to widespread use and impacts a huge demand area. Silicon solar Cells are chosen as a fairly well-known representative of the solar electric technologies and in which significant advances are being mode. The final talk cover a number of interesting systems question that are both importatnt to field of solar electricity and likely to concern EE's.

Energy: Planning solar's future: Solar power struggles for economic viability; its proponents see it as an important, if small, complement to traditional sources

Examines the budgetary and developmental targets of various solar-electric technologies-namely, wind, photovoltaic, solar-thermal, ocean-thermal, and satellite power generation-in comparison with other technologies that are expected to contribute significantly, in the long term, to the generation of electric power. The present status and problems of some of the solar-electric technologies are also addressed.

Thrust system technology for solar electric propulsion.

Solar electric thrust system technology concerning performance, thruster control system stability and method for solution