A comprehensive analysis of the performance characteristics of the Mount Laguna solar photovoltaic installationThis paper represents the first comprehensive survey of the Mount Laguna Photovoltaic Installation. The novel techniques used for performing the field tests have been effective in locating and characterizing defective modules. A comparative analysis on the two types of modules used in the array indicates that they have significantly different failure rates, different distributions in degradational space and very different failure modes. A life cycle model is presented to explain a multimodal distribution observed for one module type. A statistical model is constructed and it is shown to be in good agreement with the field data.
Document ID
19820061579
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Conference Proceedings
Authors
Shumka, A. (Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Sollock, S. G. (California Institute of Technology, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena CA, United States)