Assessing the U.S.’s 100 Longest-Running PV Systems
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摘要
This paper examines the annual generation of the 100 longest-operating U.S. PV systems. These systems were installed between 2003 and 2011, with an average age of 14.5 years. At the midpoint of their expected 30‑year lifetimes, cumulative production has been 13% below expected. Along with generation, results of three other measures of performance are presented: system‑level degradation, downside uncertainty, and inter‑annual variability. As with the generation, the fleet performance in each of these categories has also been significantly poorer than expected.
As a secondary objective, a smaller set of 25 newer systems, each installed in 2018, with an average age of 6.2 years, was also analyzed. This set was added in order to see whether the newer generation of systems had exhibited improvements relative to the older fleet. In short, it has not, as the output from the newer sample has been about 5% poorer relative to the older set at the same age.
关键词
Photovoltaic systems, PV performance, long-term PV generation, solar energy production, performance index, PV degradation, inter-annual variability, uncertainty analysis, EIA generation data, aging PV systems, U.S. solar fleet, lifetime performance, gener
稿件作者
Kajal Sheth
New York Institute of Technology
Tim Townsend
University of Wisconsin
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