One-year testing shows ground-mounted PV achieves 'superior' performance ratio in Sahara

A 12-month testing of a 1.1 MW pilot PV facility built in 2016 in Algeria's desert has shown that tracking-equipped ground-mounted PV can reach high performance ratio values under Saharan conditions. The plant was built with a variety of PV module technologies.Researchers at the University of Gävle in Sweden have conducted a series of tests at a 1.12 MW PV plant with tracking systems deployed in Oued Nechou, Ghardaia, Algeria, and have found that there is a strong correlation between its performance ratio and air temperature, output power, and irradiation. The scientists used experimental data ...

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