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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"solar power generation"”.
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Data Assimilation and Applications in Forecasting
… cover forecasts are useful when forecasting solar power generation because clouds are the primary driver of reducing irradiance and therefore solar power generation. Our method uses satellite images, optical flow, and numerical weather prediction (NWP) in conjunction with an EnKF to estimate …
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Where solar thermal meets photovoltaic for high-efficiency power conversion
To develop disruptive techniques which generate power from the Sun, one must understand the aspects of existing technologies that limit performance. Solar thermal and solar photovoltaic schemes dominate today's solar market but both bring intrinsic and practical constraints. What will tomorrow's …
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Identifying, Characterizing, and Mitigating Wind and Solar Resource Shortages Across the Continental United States
… systems that are heavily reliant on wind and solar generation. However, wind and solar resources are variable, and supplying energy reliably and cost effectively requires the use of other technologies. In particular, recent studies suggest that the energy infrastructure capacities required for …
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Designing Reactive Power Control Rules for Smart Inverters using Machine Learning
Due to increasing penetration of solar power generation, distribution grids are facing a number of challenges. Frequent reverse active power flows can result in rapid fluctuations in voltage magnitudes. However, with the revised IEEE 1547 standard, smart inverters can actively control their …
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Stability assessment of 132kV Sabah grid-connected solar pV system
… greenhouse gas emission accelerate the use of solar power to generate electricity. Therefore in this project, system study will be carried out to determine the largest possible capacity of Photovoltaic (PV) solar power generation to be injected to the Northern Grid of SESB’s 132kV network.The …
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Solar Roof Monetization in US Industrial Real Estate
… real estate sector at the forefront of solar energy adoption, to leverage the underused extensive roof for solar power generation. This thesis scrutinizes the process of solar roof monetization, assessing the interplay between market dynamics, policy frameworks, and the financial …
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An integrated traverse planner and analysis tool for future lunar surface exploration
… the metabolic expenditure of an astronaut or the power usage of a transportation rover over the terrain. The user can select Activity Points and visualize the generated path on a 3D mapping interface. The capabilities of SEXTANT are further augmented by the Individual Mobile Agents System (iMAS) …
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Evaluation of alternative cooling techniques for photovoltaic panels
… in renewable energies during last decades. Solar energy is the most abundant source of energy on the earth. Although technologies for converting sunlight energy to power have made a lot of progress, high capital cost and low conversion efficiency are the main hurdles for widespread use of …
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The impact of a 'trough' Concentrated Solar Power facility on birds and other animals in the Northern Cape, South Africa
The environmental impacts of solar power generation and particularly Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) are not well understood. There have been reports of birds injured and killed by concentrated solar radiation at power 'towers' and from collisions with mirrors at both tower and 'trough' facilities. …
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Solar power forecasting using Gaussian process regression
Solar power forecasting has become an important aspect affecting crucial day-to-day activities in people's lives. Many African countries are now facing blackouts due to a shortage of energy. This has caused the urge to encourage people to use other energy sources to rise, resulting in different …
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New and improved solutions for the configuration, management and operation of large-scale photovoltaic power plants using hybrid energy storage system
… on the main disadvantages of photovoltaic (PV) solar power generation compared to conventional energy sources, such as intermittency, non-dispatchability, and unreliability. From those drawbacks, the aim is to find creative solutions to mitigate these issues with a power plant combining PV and …
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Tuning energy transport in solar thermal systems using nanostructured materials
Solar thermal energy conversion can harness the entire solar spectrum and theoretically achieve very high efficiencies while interfacing with thermal storage or back-up systems for dispatchable power generation. Nanostructured materials allow us to tune the spectral properties and heat transfer …
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Evaluation of the suitably of proposed site for construction of photovoltaic solar facility at Kakamas in the Northern Cape of South Africa
Solar energy development is experiencing significant growth due to national interest in increasing energy efficiency, reducing dependence on fossil fuels, increasing domestic energy production, and curbing greenhouse gas emissions. Northern Cape is generally known to be one of the preferred areas …
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Series DC Arc Fault Detection for a Grid-Tie Solar PV Power Generation System
… detection of series dc arc faults in a grid-tie solar photovoltaic (PV) installation. The sensed dc bus current, which is sampled using an analog-to-digital converter with Galvanic isolation, is filtered using a wavelet-based, two-level filter bank. The filter bank, referred to as the …
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Unlocking energy-water nexus and incentivizing energy-saving behavior in Indian agriculture - Discrete choice approach
… financial incentives to promote the diffusion of solar PV irrigation pumps in Punjab agriculture. The flexible mixed logit formulation is additionally applied to improve the willingness to pay/willingness to accept estimates and economic evaluations. The results show that initial subsidies have a …
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Data-driven materials design
… has never been greater. The production of better solar power generation will require new photovoltaic materials. Advanced devices and sensors will require new electronic materials. And in a globalized economy, the pressures to hasten the discovery process are only growing. These factors have led …
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A Novel DC-DC Converter for Photovoltaic Applications
… policies mean that small, distributed forms of generation, like solar photovoltaics, will play a large role in our transition to a clean energy future. In this thesis, a novel DC-DC converter known as the Coupled Inductors Combined Cuk-SEPIC' (CI-CCS) converter is explored, which is particularly …