| Title | Date | Views | Brief Description |
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| Monitoring and Modeling Hot Water Consumption in Hotels for Solar Thermal Water Heating System Optimization |
2011 |
21210 |
In this study, hot water consumption was monitored at two hotels in Boone, North Carolina. A typical hot water profile was created for each hotel, and the profiles were then used to size a solar thermal water heating system for each of them. The sy... |
| A Comparative Analysis Of Water Pasteurization Using Photovoltaics, Solar Thermal, And PV/T Systems |
2022 |
278 |
Clean drinking water is a finite resource that may prove to be the most valuable resource in the years to come. To provide safe drinking water, numerous purification methods have been researched. These methods can be paired with renewable energy syst... |
| Characterizing Electrical Output of Sanyo HIT 195 Bifacial Photovoltaic Modules By Altering Reflective Material Below the Lower Face Absorptive Cells |
2012 |
6290 |
Bifacial photovoltaic modules offer potentially enhanced power output due to their reported ability to harvest reflected radiation increasing output up to an additional 30%. This enhancement has yet to be confirmed in the literature.
Reflectivity ... |
| Determining the Accuracy of Solar Trackers |
2013 |
22018 |
The experiment was measuring the tracker angles of the commercially available, non-algorithm based solar trackers. The results showed that the average accuracy of the azimuth angle of the Zomeworks UTR-020 is 75%, the average accuracy of the azimuth ... |
| Minimizing Grid Interaction With A Residential Self-Consumption System That Includes PV |
2020 |
424 |
This study analyses the impact a self-consumption system with solar PV and battery storage has on the energy usage of a typical residential home in Boone, NC. This is quantified using two means, grid import reduction and demand reduction. Performance... |
| A Direct Comparison between a Central Inverter and Microinverters in a Photovoltaic Array |
2011 |
26213 |
Microinverters, successfully introduced to the market in 2008, have the potential to transform the PV landscape. They offer many advantages over central inverter topologies, including potentially increased power output compared to a central inverter.... |
| An evaluation of the exchange of energy and value in net metering in North Carolina |
2015 |
2094 |
Net metering as a policy enables customers with solar photovoltaics (PV) to receive retail value for their solar energy. Large-scale evaluations of net metering performed in other states have presented this retail value as a cost to the customer’s u... |
| The Effects Of Battery Storage And Load Management On Photovoltaic Self-Consumption |
2017 |
2935 |
Despite the rapid growth of the photovoltaic (PV) industry, most of the energy demand in the United States is supplied by fossil fuel power plants. One of the main reasons for this is that PV is non-dispatchable. Because of this, utilities must maint... |