This is the first of three planned quarterly Technical Reports of 1996 system performance and major project activities …. (4) Supported the contractor in their efforts for enhancing the performance and reliability of the Amonix EMT-3 array at …

energy performance. As a result, the industry has been forced to consider alternative incentive structures, particularly ones … that pay based on long-term measured performance. The industry, however, lacks consensus in the debate over the tradeoffs …

manufacturers have stimulated innovations and improved the performance of existing technologies. With this resurgence, Sandia …

performance, financing parameters, electricity prices and rates, and policies. We find that local incentives rather than …

prices, utility rate structures, and federal and local incentives. The model uses the projected financial performance of PV … components of SolarDS include a PV performance simulator, a PV annual revenue calculator, a PV financial performance calculator … maximum PV market share assumed for systems with given financial performance, and (3) PV financing parameters and policy …

National Laboratory. This model is able to model the finances, incentives, and performance of flat-plate photovoltaic (PV … users to investigate the impact of variations in performance, cost, and financial parameters to better understand their … impact on key figures of merit. Figures of merit related to the cost and performance of these systems include, but aren …

plant it is important to reduce heliostat cost as much as possible to improve the economic performance of power towers. In …

This document provides an empirically based performance model for grid-connected photovoltaic inverters used for system … performance (energy) modeling and for continuous monitoring of inverter performance during system operation. The versatility and … from a recognized testing laboratory. An initial database of inverter performance parameters was developed based on …

performance metric to characterize PV value because they are looking for different types of returns from a PV investment. This … report finds that different economic performance metrics frequently show different price thresholds for when a PV investment … impact on other metrics (e.g., simple payback time). As such, the choice of economic performance metric by different customer …