This paper examines the architectural implications for the integration of photovoltaic and solar thermal systems in new construction or extensive renovation of existing building shells. The study is based on a documentation of the current literature and a taxonomy of current and proposed applications based on conformance to a variety of building typologies. Additionally to the literature review...

The Department of Energy has outlined the SunShot initiative, a plan to increase the adoption of solar energy by making it more cost competitive without requiring subsidies. A key component of this plan is to reduce costs associated with the balance of systems (BoS), which accounts for more than 40 percent of the total installed cost of solar energy systems. Balance of Systems encompasses the r...

Renewable energy sources are gaining more importance in the energy scenario. The advances in the technologies associated with the increase of efficiency of solar panels, the photovoltaic (PV) solar energy has gained momentum in this new scenario. The absence of galvanic isolation in transformer less PV systems will give rise to capacitive leakage current between the photovoltaic system and the ...

In this paper, on the basis of Green Comprehensive Plan at Hakim Sabzevari University of Sabzevar, Iran, the application of active solar  systems for the dining hall is evaluated. The impact of solar systems and energy management designed for this hall on energy consumption and environment was investigated.This study measures the electricity and thermal energy consumption of the dining hall , p...

In this research paper an energy system composed of three energy conversion devices namely, photovoltaic panels, a wind turbine, and a battery is proposed. This controller directs power to a fixed voltage DC bus. The fixed voltage bus supplies the load, while the excess power is directed to the batteries. Simulation and control of a hybrid PVwind generator system connected to the load are prese...

Abstract: This paper provides a review on various PV simulator technologies as well as presents a novel equivalent photovoltaic (PV) source that was constructed by using un-illuminated solar panels and a DC power supply that operates in current source mode. The constructed PV source was used for testing photovoltaic converters and various maximum power point tracking (MPPT) algorithms required ...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) National Data Buoy Center (NDBC) operates the Marine Observation Network (MON) for NOAA's National Weather Service (NWS). The MON is a network of land and buoy-based automated platforms that collect and report meteorological and oceanographic measurements and transmit these data in near real-time through the NOAA Geostationary Operati...

The development of flexible organic photovoltaic solar cells, using an optically transparent substrate material and organic semiconductor materials, has been widely utilized by the electronic industry when producing new technological products. The flexible organic photovoltaic solar cells are the base Poly (3,4ethylenedioxythiophene), PEDOT, Poly(3-hexyl thiophene, P3HT, Phenyl-C61-butyric acid...

Increasingly, using lower energy cost system to overcome the need of human beings is of interest in today's energy conservation environment. To address the solution, several approaches have been undertaken in past. Where, renewable energy sources such as photovoltaic systems are one of the suitable options that will study in this paper. Furthermore, significant work has been carried out in the ...

The goal of this paper is to find the optimum mechanism for extracting the maximum possible power out of a given set of solar panels. There are many different approaches to this problem. A huge variety of concepts leads to an even larger variety of circuits and mechanisms for operating photovoltaic panels as close as possible to the point of maximum power and efficiency. Some of the concepts ar...