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Langer, J.K.A. (author)Indonesia has been dependent on its abundant coal reserves to meet its increasing electricity demand. The Indonesian government is aware of the negative environmental effects of coal combustion and pledged to become carbon neutral by 2060 or earlier by transitioning towards renewables. In principle, it is known that Indonesia has large renewable...doctoral thesis 2024
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Alcañiz Moya, A. (author), Monaco, N. (author), Isabella, O. (author), Ziar, H. (author)The growing global energy demand increases the need for renewable energy sources. This increase requires land to be occupied, competing with other activities such as agriculture and residency. In such a situation, renewable energy sources expand to other environments like the ocean. However, this new scene poses some challenges, such as the...journal article 2024
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El Ghazi, Haddou (author), Eker, Yasin Ramazan (author), En-nadir, Redouane (author), Ahmed, Shrouk Eid Zaki (author), Basyooni, Mohamed A. (author)The paper deals with the conception and feasibility of the device structure based on the optimized PIN-(In, Ga)N homojunction solar cells. A new and efficient model combining the most realistic ones considering the impacts of band gap narrowing, collection efficiency, Shockley-Read-Hall recombination, and interface polarization is proposed to...journal article 2024
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Khlebnikova, E. (author), Pothof, I.W.M. (author), van der Zwan, Sam (author), Loverdou, Lefki (author)This paper presents challenges in the control of 5GDHC networks and proposes an approach for the robust control design of these networks. Temperatures are low and temperature differences are small in 5GDHC networks, in order to minimise heat losses in the distribution network and directly utilise low-temperature heat sources. Therefore, the...journal article 2024
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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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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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Bakhshi-Jafarabadi, Reza (author), Lekić, A. (author), Dehghan Marvasti, F. (author), de Jesus Chavez, Jose (author), Popov, M. (author)Overvoltage instability is a growing concern in a standalone low-voltage (LV) microgrid (MG) with non-dispatchable intermittent renewable energies such as residential and commercial photovoltaic generators (PVGs). Several overvoltage controllers used in PV arrays have adopted the concept of standard deviation from the maximum power point (MPP...journal article 2023
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Hamida, H.B. (author), Konstantinou, T. (author), Prieto, Alejandro (author), Klein, T. (author)Solar cooling integrated façades (SCIFs) have the potential to reduce primary energy consumption for space cooling. Identifying key enabling factors in the context of technical and product (T&P), financial (F), as well as process and stakeholder (P&S) related aspects represent an important step providing relevant knowledge for...journal article 2023
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Kuruganti, V.V. (author), Mazurov, Alexander (author), Seren, Sven (author), Isabella, O. (author), Mihailetchi, Valentin D. (author)In this work, we developed an in situ annealing process to crystallize boron-doped amorphous silicon [a-Si(p+)] layers deposited by atmospheric pressure chemical vapour deposition (APCVD) to form boron-doped polycrystalline silicon [poly-Si(p+)] layers. The influence of the temperature profiles during a-Si(p+) inline deposition on structural,...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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Yao, Z. (author), Yang, G. (author), Han, C. (author), Procel Moya, P.A. (author), Özkol, E. (author), Yan, J. (author), Zhao, Y. (author), Cao, L. (author), van Swaaij, R.A.C.M.M. (author), Mazzarella, L. (author), Isabella, O. (author)Passivating contacts are crucial for realizing high-performance crystalline silicon solar cells. Herein, contact formation by plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) followed by an annealing step is focused on. Poly-SiO<sub>x</sub> passivating contacts by combining plasma-assisted N<sub>2</sub>O-based oxidation of silicon (PANO-SiO...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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Gorrasi, Chiara (author), Koirala, Arpan (author), Bruninx, K. (author), Delarue, Erik (author), Van Hertem, Dirk (author)Assessing the capability of a distribution grid to accommodate new solar PV installations, namely its hosting capacity (HC), has been a prevalent research topic. Although providing a technical limit to how much additional solar PV can be integrated into a distribution grid without trespassing operational limits, commonly used HC analysis (HCA)...conference paper 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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van Nijen, D.A. (author), Muttillo, M. (author), Van Dyck, R.I.K. (author), Poortmans, Jef (author), Zeman, M. (author), Isabella, O. (author), Manganiello, P. (author)To achieve a high performance in sub-module power conditioning circuits, it is important that power converters are designed in accordance with the photovoltaic (PV) cell impedance at the input. Taking this one step further, exploiting the impedance of cell strings could even support novel power conditioning approaches in PV modules. In this...journal article 2023
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Kraaijvanger, C.W. (author), Verma, T. (author), Doorn, N. (author), Goncalves, J. E. (author)With technological advances and decreasing prices, solar energy is a key technology in the urban energy transition. However, the focus on increasing the overall installed capacity has overshadowed energy justice considerations, leading to inequalities in solar energy adoption. This paper adopts an equity perspective to analyse the transition...journal article 2023
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Reis, F.R. (author), Rueda, José L. (author), Palensky, P. (author), Gonzalez-Longatt, Francisco (author)This paper concerns with the determination of a suitable level of overplanting for photovoltaic systems. For this purpose, six futuristic operational scenarios for the Dutch electrical power system are generated for year 2050. A synthetic model is developed by using DIgSILENT Power Factory 2022 SP3 to investigate the steady-state systemic...conference paper 2023
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Akkaoui, R. (author), Stefanov, Alexandru (author), Palensky, P. (author), Epema, D.H.J. (author)The solar industry in residential areas has been witnessing an astonishing growth worldwide. At the heart of this transformation, affecting the edge of the electricity grid, reside smart inverters (SIs). These IoT-enabled devices aim to introduce a certain degree of intelligence to conventional inverters by integrating various grid support...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
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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