Author(s):	Jahn, U.
Organization:	Institut für Solarenergieforschung GmbH (ISFH), Emmerthal, Germany
Date of issue:	July 1998
Details:	4 pages: graphs, tables; with references
Type:	Paper IEA  PVPS Task 2
Presented at:	2nd World Conference and Exhibition on Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conversion, 6-10 July 1998, Vienna
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Available from:	Forschungszentrum Julich, BEO, Projekttrager Biologie, Energie, Okologie, D-52425 Juelich, Germany
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E-mail:	r.dahl@fz.juelich.de
Abstract:	As a part of the International Energy Agency (IEA) Photovoltaic Power Systems Co-operative Programme (PVPS), Task 2, the participants are collecting and analysing operational data of photovoltaic plants in various system techniques (grid-connected, stand-alone, hybrid) located all over the world. The objective of this joint project is to provide PV experts and other target groups with suitable information on the operational performance of PV systems and their subsystems. The developed IEA database is designed to gather and standardize the operational data of PV systems applied to various uses in order to achieve an assessment of their performance on the same base. Detailed system characteristics of existing PV plants as well as analysis allows comparisons between existing PV systems in different countries with different climatic conditions, PV plants using various system techniques and PV systems of different consumption behaviour.

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