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Enhancing Bifacial Pv Efficiency With The Addition Of A Rear Side Reflector, Neila Watson
Enhancing Bifacial Pv Efficiency With The Addition Of A Rear Side Reflector, Neila Watson
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Bifacial photovoltaics are an expanding sector of solar electricity production, collecting solar energy on the front, back, and sides of the module. This increases the efficiency by around 10% to 30% over a typical mono facial cell, which only collects sunlight on the front. However, the performance of bifacial PV arrays depends on a variety of factors, including temperature, shadows, solar insolation, and set-up geometry. The geometry is affected by the tilt angle, the azimuth angle, the height from the ground to the panel, and the reflectance from the ground surface. The addition of a reflector, usually white in color …