 Experimental validation of the optimum photovoltaic panels' tilt angle for remote consumersJohn Kaldellis, Kosmas Kavadias and Dimitrios Zafirakis Renewable Energy, 2012, vol. 46, issue C, 179-191 Abstract: Across the entire Greek territory one may encounter several remote consumers that could cover their needs on the basis of PV-based stand-alone applications exploiting the high quality local solar potential. In this context, optimum sizing of such installations also involves investigation of the optimum panels' tilt angle, which opposite to grid-connected applications is required to provide year-round energy autonomy rather than maximization of the annual energy yield. Considering the above, investigation of the optimum panels' tilt angle for stand-alone applications is the aim of the specific study, in both theoretical and experimental terms. Theoretical investigation is based on the validation of the assumption that the optimum angle for such applications coincides with the angle that provides maximum exploitation of solar potential during winter months, while following, the optimum angle determined in the area of 60° is also experimentally validated with the conduction of long-term winter measurements for the area of Athens. Keywords: Solar energy; Stand-alone system; Experimental measurements; Greece (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:renene:v:46:y:2012:i:c:p:179-191 DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2012.03.020 Access Statistics for this article Renewable Energy is currently edited by Soteris A. Kalogirou and Paul Christodoulides More articles in Renewable Energy from Elsevier |
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