Comparison of the performance of residential photovoltaic power systems in new home construction

Author

Palomino, G.E. ; Stephenson, R.L. ; Lepley, T.

Author_Institution

Salt River Project, Phoenix, AZ, USA

fYear

2002

fDate

19-24 May 2002

Firstpage

1679

Lastpage

1682

Abstract

Salt River Project (SRP) in collaboration with a local homebuilder, C. Curtis Construction, dba Calex Homes, initiated a project to characterize the performance of photovoltaic systems in new home construction. Five PV power systems, each from a different manufacturer, ranging in size from 0.7 to 1.4 kW AC, were installed in a roof-mounted, grid-connected configuration on single-family model homes in the homebuilder´s development in Queen Creek, Arizona. This paper provides an overview of the performance and operation of these systems for the period of November 2001 through March 2002.

Keywords

building integrated photovoltaics; 0.7 to 1.4 kW; Arizona; Calex Homes; PV system performance; Queen Creek; Salt River Project; new home construction; power rating; residential photovoltaic power systems; roof-mounted grid-connected configuration; single-family model homes; Collaboration; Data acquisition; Inverters; Manufacturing industries; Photovoltaic systems; Power system modeling; Power systems; Rivers; Solar system; Virtual manufacturing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, 2002. Conference Record of the Twenty-Ninth IEEE

ISSN

1060-8371

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7471-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PVSC.2002.1190942

Filename

1190942