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Intermediate photovoltaic system application experiment operational performance report. Volume 5 for Beverly High School, Beverly, MA

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:5286588
Performance data are presented for the month of January, 1982 for a grid-connected photovoltaic power supply at a Massachusetts high school. Data presented include: monthly and daily electrical energy produced; monthly and daily solar energy incident on the array; monthly and daily array efficiency; plots of energy produced as a function of power level, voltage, cell temperature and time of day; power conditioner input, output and efficiency for each of two individual units and for the total power conditioning system; photovoltaic system efficiency; capacity factor; PV system to load and grid to load energies and corresponding dollar values; daily energy supplied to the load by the PV system; daily PV system availability; monthly and hourly insolation; monthly and hourly temperature average; monthly and hourly wind speed; wind direction distribution; average heating and cooling degree days; number of freeze/thaw cycles; and the data acquisition mode and recording interval plot. Also included are summaries of two problems with the operating data acquisition system. (LEW)
Research Organization:
Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM (USA); Boeing Computer Services Co., Seattle, WA (USA)
DOE Contract Number:
AC04-76DP00789
OSTI ID:
5286588
Report Number(s):
SAND-81-7088/5; ON: DE82012058
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English