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Wix, Lynrick (author)As more and more solar panels are installed on households, a problem arises when the power from the solar panels fluctuating throughout the day due to clouds passing over the solar panels. This in turn causes voltage flickers in the household, which can be visible/irritable to the human eye and damage appliances in the household. These voltage...master thesis 2023
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Koutarapu, Ritika (author)The increasing deployment of photovoltaic (PV) modules in urban environments, often prone to shading, underscores the critical importance of selecting shading-resistant modules. Unfortunately, a standardized parameter for assessing and comparing PV module performance under shading remains absent. Currently, quantifying a module's ability to...master thesis 2023
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Chen, N. (author)The issue of climate change, including global warming, poses a significant challenge to our planet. In response to this challenge, the Paris Agreement was signed, which aims to limit the rise in global temperatures to well below 2 <sup style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; --tw...doctoral thesis 2023
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Gong, Haoran (author)With the great application potential of the Internet of Things (IoT), a reliable power supply solution for IoT plays an important role during the development of IoT and other advanced applications. Among all the options including the electricity grid, batteries, and energy harvesting systems, the energy harvesting systems are considered with...master thesis 2023
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Requejo Ruiz, Emilio (author)The use of DC microgrids in combination with photovoltaic (PV) energy generation sources results in higher efficiencies by avoiding AC to DC conversion. Moreover, bipolar DC grids allow for more system flexibility and increased reliability at the cost of an additional conductor when compared to unipolar DC. However, maximum power point tracking ...master thesis 2023
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Lu, Yundi (author)As of 2021, China's newly installed photovoltaic (PV) capacity has topped the world for nine consecutive years. Considering that the general life of crystalline silicon PV modules is 25 years, in the near future, China will face a wave of decommissioning of waste PV modules. Therefore, it is crucial to develop and improve China's PV module...master thesis 2023
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de Vilder, Sietse (author)The municipality of Amsterdam is swiftly advancing its climate neutrality aspirations within the EU’s Climate Neutral Cities Mission. To accelerate this transition, the municipality has set the target to fully utilize suitable rooftop surfaces for solar panels by 2050. Yet, economic incentives prompt households to replace PV panels prematurely,...master thesis 2023
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Stevens, Tristan (author)Several promising photovoltaic (PV) concepts are supported by transistors. Along with the growth of PV capacity in the urban environment, issues related to partial shading highlight the interest in more shade-tolerant PV systems. An example of technologies improving a PV module’s energy yield under partial shading is the submodule power...master thesis 2023
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Triana de las Heras, Javier (author)Technological advances, cost reduction, depletion of fossil fuels, environmental concerns, and growing energy demand are expanding photovoltaic solar energy (PV) in more latitudes and locations. A simple and effective procedure to assess the PV potential of a particular region is to analyse its climatic conditions. In general, climatic studies...master thesis 2023
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Doornbos, Quinten (author)Renewable energy resources like wind and solar have the potential to revolutionize our energy infrastructure and enable a decarbonized society. The intermittent nature of renewables poses a challenge to ensuring a consistent and reliable electricity supply. Hydrogen technology is emerging as a promising solution for stabilizing renewable energy...master thesis 2023
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de Goede, Marnix (author)Passivating contacts in the front-rear contacted c-Si solar cells enhances the device performance by quenching the contact recombination and enabling sufficient carrier transport. Tunneling oxide passi- vating contact (TOPCon) which consists of an interfacial oxide and a poly-SiO𝑥 layer is one of the most promising contact techniques in...master thesis 2023
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Fauzan Maghdavi, Fauzan (author)Indonesia has recently made a target to shift to more sustainable and renewable energy sources through its energy transition commitment to achieve net zero emissions by 2060. It is widely reported in various literature that the country has significant solar energy potential. At the moment of writing, the current solar PV in construction,...master thesis 2023
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van Dijken, Max (author)This graduation report covers the process and outcome of developing and designing novel photovoltaic (PV) products for architectural and design applications. The project aimed to find innovative solutions for seamlessly integrating photovoltaics into architecture and design and thus contribute to sustainable building practices. With a hands-on,...master thesis 2023
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de Gruijter Eguiluz, Álvaro (author)The purpose of this thesis research was to perform a photovoltaic (PV) performance assessment and comparison between a small-scale land-based PV system and an off-shore off-grid floating PV system. Also from this research design guidelines for off-grid off-shore floating PV systems were developed. The research experiment was carried out in The...master thesis 2023
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Grzebyk, Daniel (author), Alcañiz Moya, A. (author), Donker, Jaap (author), Zeman, M. (author), Ziar, H. (author), Isabella, O. (author)Due to the inherent uncertainty in photovoltaic (PV) energy generation, an accurate power forecasting is essential to ensure a reliable operation of PV systems and a safe electric grid. Machine learning (ML) techniques have gained popularity on the development of this task due to its increased accuracy. Most literature, however, focuses only...journal article 2023
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Zou, Tao (author), Niu, Xinbo (author), Ji, Xingda (author), Chen, X. (author), Tao, Longbin (author)In marine environment, floating photovoltaic (FPV) plants are subjected to wind, wave and current loadings. Waves are the primary source of fatigue damage for FPVs. The climate change may accumulatively affect the wave conditions, which may result in the overestimation or underestimation of fatigue damage. This paper aims to present a...journal article 2023
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Vergara Barrios, P.P. (author), Giraldo, Juan S. (author), Salazar, Mauricio (author), Panda, Nanda Kishor (author), Nguyen, Phuong H. (author)A photovoltaic (PV)-rich low-voltage (LV) distribution network poses a limit on the export power of PVs due to the voltage magnitude constraints. By defining a customer export limit, switching off the PV inverters can be avoided, and thus reducing power curtailment. Based on this, this paper proposes a mixed-integer nonlinear programming (MINLP)...journal article 2023
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Ortiz Lizcano, J.C. (author), Villa, Simona (author), Zhou, Y. (author), Frantzi, Georgia (author), Vattis, Kyriakos (author), Calcabrini, A. (author), Yang, G. (author), Zeman, M. (author), Isabella, O. (author)Herein, the application of a comprehensive modeling framework that can help optimize the design of multilayered optical filters for coloring photovoltaic (PV) modules is presented based on crystalline silicon solar cells. To overcome technical issues related to the implementation of color filters (CFs) on PV modules, like glare and color...journal article 2023
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van der Roest, E. (author), Voeten, Joris G.W.F. (author), Cirkel, Dirk Gijsbert (author)With an increasing demand for climate resiliency, water sensitivity, nature inclusiveness and energy efficiency in dense urban environments, the call for layered and multifunctional use of rooftops is rising. Vegetated roofs combined with Photo-Voltaic (PV) installations are an example of multifunctional and more effective use of available...journal article 2023
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Tous, Loic (author), Govaert, Jonathan (author), Harrison, Samuel (author), Carrière, Carolyn (author), Barth, Vincent (author), Giglia, Valentin (author), Buchholz, Florian (author), Chen, N. (author), Gordon, I.M.F. (author)The EU crystalline silicon (c-Si) PV manufacturing industry has faced strong foreign competition in the last decade. To strive in this competitive environment and differentiate itself from the competition, the EU c-Si PV manufacturing industry needs to (1) focus on highly performing c-Si PV technologies, (2) include sustainability by design,...journal article 2023