Electrical performance of a fully reconfigurable series-parallel photovoltaic module
Andres Calcabrini, Mirco Muttillo, Miro Zeman, Patrizio Manganiello, Olindo Isabella · 2023
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Description
Andres Calcabrini and co-authors report a 2023 outdoor test of a solar panel that can rewire itself. Partial shade drags down a whole panel when its cells are fixed in place. Their full size prototype has six blocks that can switch links to work around shade.
Over four months outside, the flexible panel made about a tenth more energy than a fixed panel under patchy shade. Under even light it made slightly less, since the switching gear wastes a bit of power. The team suggests a tweak to the switching rules. It would narrow the output range, easing converter design, at a small cost in shade tolerance.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Andres Calcabrini, Mirco Muttillo, Miro Zeman, Patrizio Manganiello, Olindo Isabella |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 32 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |