THE INITIAL OBJECTIVE DURING FIELD PERFORMANCE TESTING AND I-V CURVE

TRANSLATION SHOULD BE TO DETERMINE AN ACCURATE VALUE FOR THE ‘EFFECTIVE

IRRADIANCE’ PARAMETER, EE. THE ‘EFFECTIVE IRRADIANCE’ IS THE SOLAR
IRRADIANCE IN THE PLANE OF THE MODULE TO WHICH THE CELLS IN THE MODULE
ACTUALLY RESPOND, AFTER THE INFLUENCES OF SOLAR SPECTRAL VARIATION,
OPTICAL LOSSES DUE TO SOLAR ANGLE-OF-INCIDENCE, AND MODULE SOILING ARE
CONSIDERED. DEPENDING ON THE MEASURED DATA AVAILABLE AND THE ACCURACY
REQUIRED, THE EFFECTIVE IRRADIANCE CAN BE DETERMINED USING FOUR DIFFERENT
APPROACHES, AS DISCUSSED BELOW.
AFTER THE EE VALUE HAS BEEN DETERMINED USING ONE OF THESE FOUR
APPROACHES, THE PERFORMANCE PARAMETERS FROM THE MEASURED I-V CURVE
CAN BE TRANSLATED TO OBTAIN THE BASIC PERFORMANCE PARAMETERS AT THE
STANDARD REPORTING (REFERENCE) CONDITION USING EQUATIONS (13) THROUGH
(20). IN TURN, THE TRANSLATED PARAMETERS CAN BE USED IN EQUATIONS (1)
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THROUGH (10) TO CALCULATEN EXPECTED ARRAY PERFORMANCE AT ALL OTHER
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