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17 December 2012 Special Section Guest Editorial: Guest Editorial: Special Section on Reliability of Photovoltaic Cells, Modules, Components, and Systems
Neelkanth G. Dhere, John H. Wohlgemuth, Kevin W. Lynn
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Journal of Photonics for Energy, Vol. 2, Issue 1, 022099 (December 2012). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JPE.2.022099
Abstract
The field of photovoltaics has undergone dramatic growth over the past few years. This growth has been accompanied by two significant changes in the commercial photovoltaic (PV) market. 1.The major PV market has shifted from the residential and commercial building markets to central station utility power markets. With this switch has come a new focus on the long-term reliability and durability of PV modules and systems. If you are installing tens or even hundreds of megawatts of PV modules, it is absolutely necessary to ensure that they will continue to perform adequately throughout their expected lifetime of at least 25 years. 2.Selling prices for PV modules have decreased from more than $4 per watt to less than $1 per watt in the last 5 years. This reduction in selling process has been driven by low-cost production in the developing world. This means that most of today's PV modules are being manufactured by companies that did not exist 10 or, in many cases, even 5 years ago. Yet the modules must carry 25-year warranties and are expected to survive at least that long without having the benefit of long-term field experience.
© 2012 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) 0091-3286/2012/$25.00 © 2012 SPIE
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Neelkanth G. Dhere, John H. Wohlgemuth, and Kevin W. Lynn "Special Section Guest Editorial: Guest Editorial: Special Section on Reliability of Photovoltaic Cells, Modules, Components, and Systems," Journal of Photonics for Energy 2(1), 022099 (17 December 2012). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JPE.2.022099
Published: 17 December 2012
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Solar cells
Reliability
Photovoltaics
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Data modeling
Solar energy
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