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Intermediate photovoltaic system application experiment operational performance report. Volume 7. Beverly High School, Beverly, MA

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:5086740
Performance data are given for a grid-connected photovoltaic power supply at a Massachusetts high school for the month of March, 1982. Data presented include: daily and monthly electrical energy produced; daily and monthly solar energy incident in the array plane; daily and monthly array efficiency; energy produced as a function of power level, voltage, cell temperature, and hour of the day; power conditioner input, output, and efficiency for two power conditioner units and for the overall power conditioning system; daily and monthly photovoltaic energy to load and the corresponding dollar value; grid to load energy from February 17 through April 5; photovoltaic system efficiency; capacity factor; daily system availability; daily and hourly insolation; heating and cooling degree days; hourly and monthly ambient temperature; hourly and monthly wind speed; wind direction distribution; number of freeze/thaw cycles; hourly cell temperature; and data acquisition mode and recording interval plot. Also included are seven summaries of site events. (LEW)
Research Organization:
Boeing Computer Services Co., Seattle, WA (USA)
DOE Contract Number:
AC04-76DP00789
OSTI ID:
5086740
Report Number(s):
SAND-81-7088/7; ON: DE82015790
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English