Title

A Review Of Pv System Performance And Life-Cycle Costs For The Sunsmart Schools Program

Abstract

In January of 2003, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection/Florida Energy Office (DEP/FEO) allocated $600,000 in hardware funds toward the installation of photovoltaic (PV) solar systems on Florida schools. As a result of this program, grid-connected PV systems less than six kilowatts in size were installed on 29 schools in the State of Florida. The Florida Solar Energy Center (FSEC) has monitored these systems for approximately one year of operation 1. The performance of 28 of these systems was analyzed using standard performance parameters such as the performance ratio, PV array efficiency, inverter efficiency, and PV system efficiency 2. In addition, a life-cycle cost analysis was conducted using new cost data values and updated market assumptions. These data will serve as a benchmark to compare against future systems with respect to performance vs. installed system cost. Copyright © 2006 by ASME.

Publication Date

12-1-2006

Publication Title

American Solar Energy Society - Solar 2006: 35th ASES Annual Conf., 31st ASES National Passive Solar Conf., 1st ASES Policy and Marketing Conf., ASME Solar Energy Division Int. Solar Energy Conference

Volume

3

Number of Pages

1129-1132

Document Type

Article; Proceedings Paper

Socpus ID

84867946259 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84867946259

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