90
39
th IEEE PHOTOVOLTAIC SPECIALISTS CONFERENCE
Area 9 - Orals
3:30 - 5:00
PM
MR 24
System Performance Modeling
Chair(s): Nate Blair, Brian Dougherty
3:30
(76)
Estimation of Parameters for Single Diode
Models from Measured I-V Curves
Clifford W Hansen
Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM,
United States
3:45
(77)
Quantifying Causes and Effects of Soft
Mismatch in Solar PV Arrays
Paul J Grana, Paul S Gibbs
Folsom Labs, LLC, San Francisco, CA, United
States
4:00
Best Student Presentation Award
Finalist
(78)
Photovoltaic System Performance
Enhancement With Non-Tracking Planar
Concentrators: Experimental Results and
BDRF Based Modelling
Rob W. Andrews
1
,
Andrew Pollard
1
,
Joshua M.
Pearce
2
1
Department of Mechanical and Materials
Engineering, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON,
Canada,
2
Department of Materials Science and
Engineering & Department of Electrical and
Computer Engineering, Michigan Technological
University, Houghton, MI, United States
4:15
(79)
Simulations of Energy Yield Improvement
in Utility-Scale PV Plants Using Distributed
Maximum Power Point Trackers
Adrian P Pope, Joseph E Schaar, Michael
Schenck
First Solar, San Francisco, CA, United States
4:30
(80)
Estimating the Sensitivity of Energy
Performance from Optimising Different PV
Technologies World Wide
Steve Ransome
1
,
Juergen Sutterlueti
2
1
SRCL, London, United Kingdom,
2
TEL,
Truebbach, Switzerland
4:45
(81)
Financial Optimization of Photovoltaic
Arrays using the Differential Evolution
Algorithm in Large Dimensional Spaces
Joseph E. Schaar, Adrian Pope, Michael Schenck
First Solar, Inc., San Francisco, CA, United States
Social Activity
5:30 - 8:30
PM
East Hall
Exhibitors Reception
TECHNICAL PROGRAM
