Abstract
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory has begun work on developing; a consensus-based approach to rating photovoltaic modules. This new approach was intended to address the limitations of the defacto standard module power rating at standard test conditions. Using technical input from a number of sources, and under the guidance of an industry-based technical review committee, the approachdescribed in this paper was developed. The Module Energy Rating (MER) consists of 10 estimates of how much energy a single typical module of a particular type will produce in one day, one for each of 5 different weather/location combinations and 2 load-types. This paper presents an overview of the procedures required to generate an MER for any particular module type.
Original language | American English |
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Number of pages | 10 |
State | Published - 1995 |
NREL Publication Number
- NREL/TP-411-8005
Keywords
- module energy rating (MER)
- photovoltaic modules
- photovoltaics (PV)
- PV