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Title: Solar Voltaic Energy


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Solar Voltaic Energy
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Outline
  • Overview of Solar Power
  • How Photo-voltaic (PV) Cells Work
  • How Solar PV Cells are Made
  • Solar PV
  • Applications
  • Efficiencies
  • Economics
  • Facts Trends
  • Research

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Solar Power Overview
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http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ImageThe_Sun_w920607
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PV Solar Radiation
http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_cells
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Photon Energy
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Light the Photovoltaic Effect
  • Certain semiconductor materials absorb certain
    wavelengths
  • The shorter the wavelength the greater the energy
  • Ultraviolet light has more energy than infrared
    light
  • Crystalline silicon
  • Utilizes all the visible spectrum plus some
    infrared radiation
  • Heat vs. electrical energy
  • Light frequencies that is too high or too low for
    the semiconductor to absorb turn into heat energy
    instead of electrical energy

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How PV Cells Work
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Florida Solar Energy Center
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Cross Section of PV Cell
http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_cells
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How Solar Cells are Made
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Solar Cell Construction
  • Materials
  • Crystalline Silicon
  • Gallium Arsenide (more expensive)
  • Grown into large single-crystal ingots
  • Sawed into thin wafers
  • 2 wafers are bonded together (p-n junction)
  • Wafers grouped into panels or arrays

http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_panel
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Creating Silicon Wafers
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Growing Silicon Ingots
Czochralski Process
http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czochralski_process
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Drawing a Silicon Ingot
http//www.answers.com/topic/silicon
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Silicon Ingots Wafers
http//www.sumcosi.com/english/products/products2.
html
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Creating PV Cells
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Computer Chips on Wafer
http//d0server1.fnal.gov/projects/silicon/www/svx
wafer.jpeg
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Silicon Solar Cell
http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ImageSolar_cell.png
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PV Cells have efficiencies approaching 21.5
Florida Solar Energy Center
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Solar Modules and Arrays
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Solar PV Systems
  • Cells are the building block of PV systems
  • Typically generate 1.5 - 3 watts of power
  • Modules or panels are made up of multiple cells
  • Arrays are made up of multiple modules
  • A typical array costs about 5 6/watt
  • Still need lots of other components to make this
    work
  • Typical systems cost about 8/watt

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Florida Solar Energy Center
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PV Modules have efficiencies approaching 17
Florida Solar Energy Center
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Florida Solar Energy Center
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Solar Panel
Solar panel by BP Solar at a German autobahn
bridge
http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_panel
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Florida Solar Energy Center
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Florida Solar Energy Center
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Florida Solar Energy Center
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Florida Solar Energy Center
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Solar PV Applications
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Spacecraft
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Recreational Use (Sailboat)
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Remote Areas (Mexico)
A solar panel in Marla, Cirque de Mafate, Réunion
http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_panel
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Residential
http//www.californiasolarco.com/photos_html/grid_
tied/rootop_system/nevada-city-2-4.html
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Commercial
Solar Centre at Baglan Energy Park in South
Wales
http//www.c-a-b.org.uk/projects/tech1.htm
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Solar PV Efficiency
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Solar Cell Efficiencies
  • Typical module efficiencies 12
  • Screen printed multi-crystalline solar cells
  • Efficiency range is 6-30
  • 6 for amorphous silicon-based PV cells
  • 20 for best commercial cells
  • 30 for multi-junction research cells
  • Typical power of 120W / m2
  • Mar/Sep equinox in full sun at equator

http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_cells
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Solar Panel Efficiency
  • 1 kW/m2 reaches the ground (sunny day)
  • 20 efficiency ? 200W/m2 electricity
  • Daylight weather in northern latitudes
  • 100 W/m2 in winter 250 W/m2 in summer
  • Or 20 to 50 W/m2 from solar cells
  • Value of electricity generated at 0.08/kWh
  • 0.10 / m2 / day OR 83,000 km2 / day

http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_panel
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Solar PV Facts Trends
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World Largest PV Solar Plants
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http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_panel
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World Solar Power Production
http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_panel
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Solar Cell Production Volume
Sharp Corporation
http//sharp-world.com/solar/generation/images/gra
ph_2004.gif
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Solar PV Cell Research
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Solar PV Components
  • Inverter
  • Converts DC power from solar array to AC for use
    in your home
  • Wiring
  • Connects the system components
  • Batteries
  • Used to store solar-produced electricity for
    nighttime or emergency use
  • Mainly used for remote sites that arent tied
    into the electrical grid
  • Charge controller
  • Prevents batteries from being over charged
  • Disconnect switches
  • Allows power from a PV system to be turned off
  • Electrical meter
  • Measures electrical production and use
  • Often runs backward if system is attached to the
    electrical grid

Total system cost 8.00 / watt
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Stand Alone Solar PV System
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Grid Connected Solar PV System
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Connecting PV to the Grid
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Net Metering
  • When your system produces more electricity than
    your home uses
  • electricity flows backward out to the grid
  • Meter runs backward and you get credit for the
    electricity you sell to the utility

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Florida Solar Energy Center
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Florida Solar Energy Center
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Siting Designing Solar PV
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Solar PV Dependencies
  • Location, Location, Location !
  • Latitude
  • Lower latitudes better than higher latitudes
  • Weather
  • Clear sunny skies better than cloudy skies
  • Temperature not important
  • Direction solar arrays face
  • South preferred, east and west acceptable
  • Absence of shade
  • Trees, Flatirons, etc.

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Solar PV Design Key Factors
  • Location
  • How much solar radiation does the system receive?
  • DC rating
  • How big is the system

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Solar PV Design Module
  • Module Efficiency
  • How efficiently does the solar system convert
    solar radiation into DC power
  • Best retail systems approaching 17
  • Holy Grail of solar PV research
  • DC to AC derate factor
  • How efficient is the system converting DC to AC
    power

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Solar PV Array Design
  • Array Flat Panel
  • Remains in a constant fixed position
  • Array tilt (equal to latitude best)
  • Increase solar radiation by 10-20
    compared to 0 tilt
  • Sunnier locations benefit more
  • Array azimuth (180 best)
  • Directly south

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Solar PV Array Tracking
  • Array 1-axis tracking
  • Tracks sun across the sky during each day
  • Stays at a constant tilt
  • Increase solar radiation by 25-30 compared to no
    tracking
  • Sunnier locations benefit more
  • Array 2-axis tracking
  • Tracks sun across the sky during each day
  • Adjusts tilt more in winter, less in summer
  • Increase solar radiation by 33-38
  • Sunnier locations benefit more

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PV Design Website
  • National Renewable Energy Lab
  • PVWATTS
  • http//rredc.nrel.gov/solar/calculators/PVWATTS/ve
    rsion2/
  • Examples
  • Portland (97229)
  • Phoenix (85034)
  • Boulder (80309)

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Solar PV Economics
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Solar PV Energy Payback
  • Expected lifetime of 40 years
  • Payback of 1-30 years
  • Typically lt 5 years
  • Solar cells 6-30 energy required to make them

http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_cells
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Cost Analysis
  • US retail module price 5.00 / W (2005)
  • Installations costs 3.50 / W (2005)
  • Cost for a 4 kW system 17,000 (2006)
  • Without subsidies
  • Typical payback period is 24 years
  • Honda 4 kW system 12,500 (2007)
  • With subsidies
  • Payback is 12 years

http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_cells
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Economic Example 1/3
  • 4000 watt system _at_ 40o fixed tilt
  • 32,000 initial cost
  • 4000 watt (4 kW) system is about 23.5 m2
  • Assume 5.5 kWh / m2/day
  • 23.5 x 5.5 129.25 DC kWh/day
  • hitting the solar modules

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Economic Example 2/3
  • Module Efficiency 17
  • 129.25 kWh/day x 0.17 21.97 DC kWh/day
  • Derate factor 77
  • Takes into account inefficiencies in the DC/AC
    conversion and internal module components
  • 21.97 DC kWh/day x 0.77 16.92 AC kWh/day
  • Output 17 kWh / day

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Economic Example 3/3
  • Pay 32,000, save 555/year
  • 16.92 kWh/day x 0.09/kWh x 365 days/year
  • 1.7 return
  • Over 20 years _at_ 6
  • Cost of Energy 0.452/kWh
  • Compared to 0.09/kWh from Xcel
  • EXPENSIVE!

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Solar PV Policy
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CO Amend. 37 Solar Provision
  • 4.50 rebate/watt up to 10 kW
  • Combination rebate/REC for larger systems
  • REC Renewable Energy Credits
  • Funded by a 0.63/month surcharge on all Xcel
    customer bills
  • 20 million/year program for 10 years

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CO Amend. 37 Solar Provision
  • On-site solar requirement
  • 2007 2010 0.06 of a retail electricity sales
  • 2011 2014 0.12 of a retail electricity sales
  • 2015 On 0.2 of a retail electricity sales
  • Focus on Xcel
  • 44,000 kW of on-site solar by 2015
  • 1500 to 2000 new on-site solar installations
  • Depending on average size
  • 352 million in PV solar installation sales
  • 200 million in rebates

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Federal Tax Credit
  • 30 tax credit
  • Max of 2,000 for residential installations
  • No maximum for businesses

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CO Cost Analysis
  • 4,000 watt system
  • 32,000 initial cost
  • 18,000 Amendment 37 rebate
  • 4000 x 4.50
  • 2,000 Federal Tax Credit
  • (32,000 - 18,000) x 0.30 4,200
  • However, maximum of 2,000
  • After rebate/tax credit cost
  • 32,000 - 18,000 - 2,000 12,000

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Return on Investment
  • For 12,000 you can save 555/year
  • 4.6 return
  • Over 20 years _at_ 6
  • Cost of Energy 0.169/kWh
  • Compared to 0.09/kWh from Xcel
  • Still EXPENSIVE!

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Solar PV Cell Research
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Emerging PV Techologies
  • Cells made from gallium arsenide
  • molecular beam epitaxy
  • 35 efficiencies have been achieved
  • Non-silicon panels using carbon nanotubes
  • Quantum dots embedded in special plastics
  • May achieve 30 efficiencies in time
  • Polymer (organic plastics) solar cells
  • Suffer rapid degradation to date

http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_cells
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Thin Film Solar Cells
  • Use less than 1 of silicon required for wafers
  • Silicon vapor deposited on a glass substrate
  • Amorphous crystalline structure
  • Many small crystals vs. one large crystal

http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_cells
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Florida Solar Energy Center
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Flexible PV Cells
http//www.princeton.edu/chm333/2002/spring/Solar
Cells/potential20images/flexible_pv_cell.jpg
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http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ImageNrel_best_resea
rch_pv_cell_efficiencies.png
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Benefits/Costs of Solar PV
  • Reduces pollution
  • Stabilizes electricity costs
  • Lessens dependence on fossil fuels
  • Increases self-reliance
  • Can size for small, on-site installations
  • Not grid dependent
  • Currently expensive

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Solar Thermal Energy
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Solar Thermal Collectors
  • Focus the sun to create to create heat
  • Boil water
  • Heat liquid metals
  • Use heated fluid to turn a turbine
  • Generate electricity

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Solar Thermal Dish Collector
http//www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/solar.renewables/page
/solarthermal/solarthermal.html
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Solar Thermal Dish Schematic
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Solar Power Towers
http//solstice.crest.org/renewables/re-kiosk/sola
r/solar-thermal/case-studies/central-receiver.shtm
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Solar Trough Scheme
http//solarbridge.org/pedestrians.html
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Parabolic Trough Cross-Section
http//www.irishsolar.com/howdoes/how_does_1.htm
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Solar Thermal Collector Trends
http//www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/solar.renewables/page
/solarthermal/solarthermal.html
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