Title :
All India Survey of Photovoltaic Module Degradation 2014: Survey methodology and statistics
Author :
Shashwata Chattopadhyay;Rajiv Dubey;Vivek Kuthanazhi;Jim Joseph John;Chetan Singh Solanki;Anil Kottantharayil;Brij M. Arora;K.L. Narasimhan;Juzer Vasi;Birinchi Bora;Yogesh Kumar Singh;O.S. Sastry
Author_Institution :
National Centre for Photovoltaic Research and Education, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Powai, Mumbai, 400076, India
fDate :
6/1/2015 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
This paper presents an overview of the 2nd All India Survey of Photovoltaic Module Degradation, conducted in the months of September to December 2014. A total of 1080 modules belonging to different photovoltaic technologies were inspected from 45 different sites which are spread across the 5 different climatic zones of India. This is the first survey in India in which electroluminescence, illuminated and dark I-V measurements, insulation resistance and various other tests were carried out on PV modules installed in the field. The goal of the survey is to determine the degradation in the field-aged PV modules and find correlations between visual, electrical and physical degradation of the PV modules. The purpose of this paper is to present an overview of the survey methodology and statistics to the PV community.
Keywords :
"Indexes","Silicon","Instruments","Load modeling","Cameras","Humidity"
Conference_Titel :
Photovoltaic Specialist Conference (PVSC), 2015 IEEE 42nd
DOI :
10.1109/PVSC.2015.7355712