Designing New Materials for Photovoltaics: Opportunities for Lowering Cost and Increasing Performance through Advanced Material Innovations
Year: 2021
Type: report
Abstract: Within the framework of IEA PVPS, Task 13 aims to provide support to market actors working to improve the operation, the reliability and the quality of PV components and systems. Operational data from PV systems in different climate zones compiled within the project will help provide the basis for estimates of the current situation regarding PV reliability and performance. The general setting of Task 13 provides a common platform to summarize and report on technical aspects affecting the quality, performance, reliability and lifetime of PV systems in a wide variety of environments and applications. By working together across national boundaries we can all take advantage of research and experience from each member country and combine and integrate this knowledge into valuable summaries of best practices and methods for ensuring PV systems perform at their optimum and continue to provide competitive return on investment. Task 13 has so far managed to create the right framework for the calculations of various parameters that can give an indication of the quality of PV components and systems. The framework is now there and can be used by the industry who has expressed appreciation towards the results included in the high-quality reports. The IEA PVPS countries participating in Task 13 are Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Chile, China, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, and the United States of America.
DOI: 10.2172/1779380
Authors: Sandia National Laboratories (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States), Gernot Oreski, USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Energy Technology Development and Demonstration Program (EUDP), German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi), Case Western Reserve Univ., Cleveland, OH (United States), Swiss Federal Office of Energy (SFOE), European Energy, Copenhagen (Denmark), Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba (Japan), Joshua Stein, Gabriele Eder, Karl Berger, Laura Bruckman, Jan Vedde, Karl-Anders Weiss, Tadanori Tanahashi, Roger French, Samuli Ranta
Institutions: Polymer Competence Center Leoben (Austria), Sandia National Laboratories, Österreichisches Forschungsinstitut für Chemie und Technik, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Case Western Reserve University, Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Turku University of Applied Sciences
Language: English
Subfield: Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
Funder: U.S. Department of Energy
OpenAlex ID: W3161908593