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E"],"bibdata":{"bibtype":"inproceedings","type":"inproceedings","title":"Analysis of the Field Performance of a Double Junction Amorphous Silicon Photovoltaic Module and Its Correlation to Standardized Testing","booktitle":"31st EU-PVSEC","author":[{"propositions":[],"lastnames":["Phinikarides"],"firstnames":["Alexander"],"suffixes":[]},{"propositions":[],"lastnames":["Makrides"],"firstnames":["George"],"suffixes":[]},{"propositions":[],"lastnames":["Georghiou"],"firstnames":["George","E"],"suffixes":[]}],"year":"2015","pages":"1992–1996","address":"Hamburg, Germany","doi":"10.4229/EUPVSEC20152015-5AV.6.20","abstract":"In this work, outdoor and indoor measurements from a double junction amorphous Silicon (a-Si) photovoltaic (PV) module installed at the PV Technology outdoor test site of the University of Cyprus were used to assess the field performance from November 2012 to June 2015. The measurements consisted of continuous current- voltage (I-V) curves from outdoor testing and bi-weekly indoor ratings at standard test conditions (STC) in a solar simulator. In order to accurately evaluate the field performance under varying meteorological conditions, the electrical parameters were extracted from field I-V curves and were then filtered for high irradiance and low angles of incidence, extrapolated to 1000 W/m2 irradiance and corrected for temperature losses. Additionally, the outdoor I-V curves were used to calculate Loss Factor Model (LFM-B) parameters. A comparison of the indoor ratings at STC to each of the two field performance indicators has shown that there was very good agreement with a mean absolute percentage error (MAPE) of 2.9 \\%\\ and 4.47 \\%\\ when using the filtered and corrected PMPP and the LFM-B Performance Factor (PF), respectively. Lastly, the effects of the module's metastable behavior on the performance were analyzed from indoor measurements at STC. It has been shown that the module suffered a degradation rate of 2.36 \\%\\/year, while the Staebler-Wronski effect and thermal annealing resulted in $±$3 \\%\\ variation of the performance, observable throughout the year.","copyright":"All rights reserved","file":"/home/alexis/Zotero/storage/9N2DN3E5/Phinikarides et al. - 2015 - Analysis of the field performance of a double junc.pdf","bibtex":"@inproceedings{phinikaridesAnalysisFieldPerformance2015,\n title = {Analysis of the Field Performance of a Double Junction Amorphous Silicon Photovoltaic Module and Its Correlation to Standardized Testing},\n booktitle = {31st {{EU-PVSEC}}},\n author = {Phinikarides, Alexander and Makrides, George and Georghiou, George E},\n year = {2015},\n pages = {1992--1996},\n address = {{Hamburg, Germany}},\n doi = {10.4229/EUPVSEC20152015-5AV.6.20},\n abstract = {In this work, outdoor and indoor measurements from a double junction amorphous Silicon (a-Si) photovoltaic (PV) module installed at the PV Technology outdoor test site of the University of Cyprus were used to assess the field performance from November 2012 to June 2015. The measurements consisted of continuous current- voltage (I-V) curves from outdoor testing and bi-weekly indoor ratings at standard test conditions (STC) in a solar simulator. In order to accurately evaluate the field performance under varying meteorological conditions, the electrical parameters were extracted from field I-V curves and were then filtered for high irradiance and low angles of incidence, extrapolated to 1000 W/m2 irradiance and corrected for temperature losses. Additionally, the outdoor I-V curves were used to calculate Loss Factor Model (LFM-B) parameters. A comparison of the indoor ratings at STC to each of the two field performance indicators has shown that there was very good agreement with a mean absolute percentage error (MAPE) of 2.9 \\{\\%\\} and 4.47 \\{\\%\\} when using the filtered and corrected PMPP and the LFM-B Performance Factor (PF), respectively. Lastly, the effects of the module's metastable behavior on the performance were analyzed from indoor measurements at STC. It has been shown that the module suffered a degradation rate of 2.36 \\{\\%\\}/year, while the Staebler-Wronski effect and thermal annealing resulted in {$\\pm$}3 \\{\\%\\} variation of the performance, observable throughout the year.},\n copyright = {All rights reserved},\n file = {/home/alexis/Zotero/storage/9N2DN3E5/Phinikarides et al. - 2015 - Analysis of the field performance of a double junc.pdf}\n}\n\n","author_short":["Phinikarides, A.","Makrides, G.","Georghiou, G. 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