A Sensitivity Study of the Impact of Installation Parameters and System Configuration on the Performance of Bifacial PV Arrays

Asgharzadeh, Amir; Marion, Bill; Deline, Chris; Hansen, Clifford; Stein, Joshua S.; Toor, Fatima

doi:10.1109/JPHOTOV.2018.2819676

Title: A Sensitivity Study of the Impact of Installation Parameters and System Configuration on the Performance of Bifacial PV Arrays

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Asgharzadeh, Amir ^[1]; Marion, Bill ^[2]; Deline, Chris ^[2]; Hansen, Clifford ^[3]; Stein, Joshua S. ^[3]; Toor, Fatima ^[1]

Univ. of Iowa, Iowa City, IA (United States)
National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)

Publication Date:: Thu Apr 19 00:00:00 EDT 2018

Research Org.:: National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States); Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Solar Energy Technologies Office (EE-4S), SunShot National Laboratory Multiyear Partnership (SuNLaMP); USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Renewable Power Office. Solar Energy Technologies Office

OSTI Identifier:: 1437222

Alternate Identifier(s):: OSTI ID: 1482737

Report Number(s):: NREL/JA-5K00-71518; SAND-2018-12213J
Journal ID: ISSN 2156-3381

Grant/Contract Number:: AC36-08GO28308; AC04-94AL85000

Resource Type:: Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 8; Journal Issue: 3; Journal ID: ISSN 2156-3381

Publisher:: IEEE

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 14 SOLAR ENERGY; 42 ENGINEERING; bifacial PV; optimization; photovoltaic systems; ray tracing; solar power generation

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                    Asgharzadeh, Amir, Marion, Bill, Deline, Chris, Hansen, Clifford, Stein, Joshua S., and Toor, Fatima. A Sensitivity Study of the Impact of Installation Parameters and System Configuration on the Performance of Bifacial PV Arrays.  United States: N. p., 2018. 
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                    Asgharzadeh, Amir, Marion, Bill, Deline, Chris, Hansen, Clifford, Stein, Joshua S., & Toor, Fatima. A Sensitivity Study of the Impact of Installation Parameters and System Configuration on the Performance of Bifacial PV Arrays.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1109/JPHOTOV.2018.2819676

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                    Asgharzadeh, Amir, Marion, Bill, Deline, Chris, Hansen, Clifford, Stein, Joshua S., and Toor, Fatima. Thu .  
"A Sensitivity Study of the Impact of Installation Parameters and System Configuration on the Performance of Bifacial PV Arrays".  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1109/JPHOTOV.2018.2819676.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1437222.

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  title        = {A Sensitivity Study of the Impact of Installation Parameters and System Configuration on the Performance of Bifacial PV Arrays},

  author       = {Asgharzadeh, Amir and Marion, Bill and Deline, Chris and Hansen, Clifford and Stein, Joshua S. and Toor, Fatima},

  abstractNote = {Abstract not provided.},

  doi          = {10.1109/JPHOTOV.2018.2819676},

  journal      = {IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics},

  number       = 3,

  volume       = 8,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {Thu Apr 19 00:00:00 EDT 2018},

  month        = {Thu Apr 19 00:00:00 EDT 2018}

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