Title :
Pollution mitigation and photovoltaic demand-side results from the US Environmental Protection Agency photovoltaic demonstrations
Author :
Kern, Edward C., Jr. ; Greenberg, Daniel S.
Author_Institution :
Ascension Technol. Inc., Lincoln Center, MA, USA
Abstract :
The US Environmental Protection Agency and 21 electric power companies in the United States are conducting two nationwide photovoltaic (PV) demand-side management (DSM) projects. Ascension Technology (AT) is responsible for system design, balance-of-systems equipment design and fabrication, installation supervision, field instrumentation, and data acquisition, monitoring and evaluation. The principal goal of the two projects is to investigate the environmental and demand-side-management (DSM) benefits of distributed, grid-tied PV systems as pollution mitigating energy replacements for fossil fuels. In 1993-4, 11 electric utilities installed PV systems on homes, schools, hospitals, office and light commercial buildings. In 1994-5, 12 electric utilities are installing PV systems on larger commercial, educational and industrial building roof-tops
Keywords :
air pollution; air pollution control; demand side management; photovoltaic power systems; testing; Ascension Technology; PV systems; US Environmental Protection Agency; balance-of-systems equipment design; data acquisition; data monitoring; demand-side-management; distributed grid-tied PV systems; electric utilities; fabrication; field instrumentation; homes; hospitals; installation supervision; light commercial buildings; office buildings; photovoltaic demand-side results; photovoltaic demonstrations; pollution mitigation; roof-top PV systems; schools; Energy management; Environmental management; Fabrication; Photovoltaic systems; Pollution; Power industry; Power system management; Power system protection; Project management; Solar power generation;
Conference_Titel :
Photovoltaic Energy Conversion, 1994., Conference Record of the Twenty Fourth. IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference - 1994, 1994 IEEE First World Conference on
Conference_Location :
Waikoloa, HI
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-1460-3
DOI :
10.1109/WCPEC.1994.520080
