DOE OSTI · 1659794
This report summarizes the progress and successes of the Durable Module Materials Consortium in FY 2019.
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Barnes, Teresa. 2020-06-24. FY 2019 DuraMAT Annual Report. https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1659794
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This presentation was part of an invited talk for a panel session presented at the 2021 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting, held 26-29 July 2021.
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Capacity testing is a routine procedure for assessing a photovoltaic system's performance relative to expectations. The most common test method involves fitting a regression model that predicts system output power using operating weather conditions including wind speed. Structural modifications to the regression model to incorporate wind in different ways improved the model's ability to fit measured system performance, but the observed improvements were small and unlikely to change the result of a capacity test. However, the results showed that the choice of reporting wind speed and inclusion or exclusion of wind speed in the performance model used as the test benchmark can significantly change the test result.