Reliability and Geographic Trends of 50,000 Photovoltaic Systems in the USA

Dirk Jordan; Sarah Kurtz

doi:10.4229/EUPVSEC20142014-5AO.7.5

Reliability and Geographic Trends of 50,000 Photovoltaic Systems in the USA

Dirk Jordan, Sarah Kurtz

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Abstract

This paper presents performance and reliability data from nearly 50,000 photovoltaic (PV) systems totaling 1.7 gigawatts installed capacity in the USA from 2009 to 2012 and their geographic trends. About 90% of the normal systems and about 85% of all systems, including systems with known issues, performed to within 10% or better of expected performance.

Original language	American English
Pages	2208-2215
Number of pages	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4229/EUPVSEC20142014-5AO.7.5
State	Published - 2014
Event	29th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition - Amsterdam, The Netherlands Duration: 22 Sep 2014 → 26 Sep 2014

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Conference	29th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition
City	Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Period	22/09/14 → 26/09/14

Bibliographical note

See NREL/CP-5J00-62801 for preprint

NREL Publication Number

NREL/CP-5J00-61459

Keywords

durability
photovoltaic
PV system
reliability
system performance

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