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Servicizing Solar Panels

Packaging products as services can create financial opportunities for suppliers and can create the economies of scale which help environmentally preferable products (EPP) achieve their maximum effectiveness. For suppliers, offering product service systems (PSS) broadens their market to reach customers who are only interested in purchasing a financed or valued-added version of the product. Envir...

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Solar Tracking System: More Efficient Use of Solar Panels

This paper shows the potential system benefits of simple tracking solar system using a stepper motor and light sensor. This method is increasing power collection efficiency by developing a device that tracks the sun to keep the panel at a right angle to its rays. A solar tracking system is designed, implemented and experimentally tested. The design details and the experimental results are shown...

Mechanical Stability of Solar Cells within Solar Panels

The PV market is still expanding causing the situation in PV industry becoming more and more complex. Different cell types emerge on the market provided by a growing number of cell suppliers. Due to silicon shortage in the past solar cells were getting significantly thinner within the past few years. All these parameters have a potential impact on the mechanical stability of a solar panel. This...

What's Wrong with my Solar Panels: a Data-Driven Approach

Solar panels have been improving in efficiency and dropping in price, and are therefore becoming more common and economically viable. However, the performance of solar panels depends not only on the weather, but also on other external factors such as shadow, dirt, dust, etc. In this paper, we describe a simple and practical data-driven method for classifying anomalies in the power output of sol...