Title

Evaluation Of Maxim Module-Integrated Electronics At The Doe Regional Test Centers

Keywords

diffuse view factor; embedded power electronics; MLPE; partial shading; PV system performance

Abstract

Module-embedded power electronics developed by Maxim Integrated are under evaluation through a partnership with the Department of Energy's Regional Test Center (RTC) program. Field deployments of both conventional modules and electronics-enhanced modules are designed to quantify the performance advantage of Maxim's products under different amounts of interrow shading, and their ability to be deployed at a greater ground-coverage ratio than conventional modules. Simulations in PVSYST have quantified the predicted performance difference between conventional modules and Maxim's modules from interrow shading. Initial performance results have identified diffuse irradiance losses at tighter row spacing for both the Maxim and conventional modules. Comparisons with published models show good agreement with models predicting the greatest diffuse irradiance losses. At tighter row spacing, all of the strings equipped with embedded power electronics outperformed their conventional peers. An even greater performance advantage is predicted to occur in the winter months when the amount of interrow shading mismatch is at a maximum.

Publication Date

10-15-2014

Publication Title

2014 IEEE 40th Photovoltaic Specialist Conference, PVSC 2014

Number of Pages

986-991

Document Type

Article; Proceedings Paper

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1109/PVSC.2014.6925080

Socpus ID

84912142353 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84912142353

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