Photovoltaic Power Generation Systems
A special issue of Electricity (ISSN 2673-4826).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 December 2023) | Viewed by 3095
Special Issue Editors
Interests: PV generators; PV thermal behaviour; wind
Interests: energy; sustainability; multi-criteria; energy planning; energy economics
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Dear Colleagues,
PV power plants of hundreds of MWp became the new standard in recent years, placing solar PV as the first-choice renewable energy to face global climatic change in the coming decades. This brings new challenges regarding the project, execution and maintenance of millions of PV modules distributed in a vast area. With the progress of PV technology and the reduced power tolerance, expected energy production faces depreciated external factors: irregular terrains, which may enlarge the mismatch losses due to the misalignment of the modules, areas more prone to soiling due to the local wind patterns and wind variations, which may induce thermal stress in the PV modules, affecting the lifespan of the PV plant. These are some examples that may affect the costs of new projects regarding the initial inversion and lifespan of a PV power plant, as well as the maintenance logistic in the PV plant or floating solar. For this Special Issue, our team invites you to collaborate with your original research related to PV generators. A broad range of topics related and relevant to PV generators are also welcome, as well as novel applications related to harnessing solar energy, like space-based solar power. We also encourage you to submit your research in related areas: meteorological analysis, experimental data, theoretical analysis and all relevant applications that may increase the current knowledge regarding PV generation.
Dr. Carlos Henrique Rossa
Dr. Paula Varandas Ferreira
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- PV solar power plants
- PV modules
- aging
- PV thermal behaviour
- soiling
- PV applications
- quality control
- PV measurements
- monofacial and bifacial PV generators
- floating PV
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