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Forcing current into a fully charged battery. The battery will be damaged if overcharged for a long period.
Industry:Energy
The ratio of array area to actual land area or building envelope area for a system; or, the ratio of total solar cell area to the total module area, for a module.
Industry:Energy
A way of joining solar cells or photovoltaic modules by connecting positive leads together and negative leads together; such a configuration increases the current, but not the voltage.
Industry:Energy
A chemical reaction that eliminates the detrimental effect of electrically reactive atoms on a solar cell's surface.
Industry:Energy
Amperes produced by a photovoltaic module or array operating at the voltage of the I-V curve that will produce maximum power from the module.
Industry:Energy
Operating point of the I-V (current-voltage) curve for a solar cell or photovoltaic module where the product of the current value times the voltage value is a maximum.
Industry:Energy
The equivalent number of hours per day when solar irradiance averages 1,000 w/m2. For example, six peak sun hours means that the energy received during total daylight hours equals the energy that would have been received had the irradiance for six hours been 1,000 w/m2.
Industry:Energy
