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Network time series forecasting in photovoltaics power production
Accurate forecasting of photovoltaic (PV) power production is crucial for the integration of more renewable energy sources into the power grid. PV power production is highly intermittent, due to the stochastic cloud behaviour and cloud dynamics. Previous w ...
EPFL2024Distributional justice, effectiveness, and costs of current and alternative solar PV incentive schemes in Switzerland
Like many other countries, Switzerland offers various incentives to promote residential solar PV, but not all households have equal access to them. Using a microsimulation approach based on merged data from the Swiss Household Budget Survey and Household E ...
2024Correlating long-term performance and aging behaviour of building integrated PV modules
Christophe Ballif, Alessandro Francesco Aldo Virtuani, Ebrar Özkalay
Because building-integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) modules are fully integrated into a building envelope, the back of the module can be exposed to little or no ventilation, resulting in increased operating temperatures. As the temperature increases, the perfo ...
Elsevier Science Sa2024Identification of typical district configurations: A two-step global sensitivity analysis framework
François Maréchal, Jonas Schnidrig, Cédric Terrier
The recent geopolitical conflicts in Europe have underscored the vulnerability of the current energy system to the volatility of energy carrier prices. In the prospect of defining robust energy systems ensuring sustainable energy supply in the future, the ...
Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2024Advanced Manufacturing and Characterization of Building-Integrated Photovoltaic Modules
Photovoltaic (PV) technology is necessary for global decarbonization. However, one of the challenges of the technology is that its land use may conflict with other space demands. Building-integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) is a solution to efficiently use the ...
EPFL2024Intrinsic performance loss rate: Decoupling reversible and irreversible losses for an improved assessment of photovoltaic system performance
Christophe Ballif, Alessandro Francesco Aldo Virtuani, Hugo James André Quest
Solar electricity is set to play a pivotal role in future energy systems. In view of a market that may soon reach the terawatt (TW) scale, a careful assessment of the performance of photovoltaic (PV) systems becomes critical. Research on PV fault detection ...
Wiley2024An Asymmetric Perturbation Signal for Enhanced Perturbation Injection Capabilities of a Grid-Connected Converter
Drazen Dujic, Andrea Cervone, Jules Christian Georges Macé
Impedance estimation is an important tool for grid- converter interaction evaluation. Using existing grid-connected converters for perturbation injection enables grid impedance estimation during operation without additional hardware (namely dedicated pertu ...
2024Identification and Mitigation of Degradation Mechanisms Induced by Heat and Light in NiOx-based Perovskite Solar Cells
Marion Solange Madeleine Dussouillez
Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) offer an attractive solution to increase the efficiency of PV panels via perovskite/silicon tandems thanks to their potential cost-effectiveness and high efficiency. In inverted PSC architecture (p-i-n), commonly used hole con ...
EPFL2024Reliability and Long-term Performance of Building Integrated Photovoltaic (BIPV) Modules
Solar photovoltaics (PV) is one of the most competitive renewable energy technologies in order to meet the increasing global energy demand and decrease CO2 emissions by competing effectively with fossil fuels. One of the important applications of PV energy ...
EPFL2024The carbon intensity of integrated photovoltaics
Christophe Ballif, Alessandro Francesco Aldo Virtuani, Alejandro Borja Block
To assess the meaningfulness of installing solar photovoltaics in buildings and infrastructures, we consider a carbon intensity (CI) balance perspective and assess whether installing PV at different orientations acts as a net CO2 sink or source, when compa ...
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