@misc{5ef416c143da4019bdc9320766737566,
title = "Pollen and Bio-Soiling in the Southeast U.S.",
abstract = "Typical PV soiling models presume that soiling follows a sawtooth pattern: linear soiling during dry periods followed by abrupt recovery or cleaning during rainfall events. Due to frequency of rainfall in the in the eastern U.S. sawtooth soiling models report near zero soiling losses in this region. Alternatively, through work with system owner/operators per NREL's PVfleet project it has become clear that there are systems in the Southeast that have soiled as high as 10% which are not recovering with regular rainfall. The current hypothesis is that sticky soiling due to pollen or other biological sources is persistent to rainfall removal. Field data and the latest progress towards de-risking bio-soiling will be presented.",
keywords = "photovoltaic, pollen, soiling",
author = "Matthew Muller and Joao Bessa and Michael Valerino and Michael Deceglie and Kevin Anderson",
year = "2023",
language = "American English",
series = "Presented at the 2023 Photovoltaic Reliability Workshop (PVRW), 28 February - 2 March 2023, Lakewood, Colorado",
type = "Other",
}
