Act. 2.3 Shading Effect

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Act. 2.3 Shading Effect

• 1. Evaluation of shading effect
• quantitative comparison
• 2. Investigation of methods/tools to study
  shading effect
• literature survey
• 3. Recommendations for minimize shading loss

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1. Evaluation of shading effect

• Approach
• Gather examples
• Obstacles / Self-shading
• Compare performances
• PR / Array yield
• Problems
• Pyranometer is also shaded usually
• -- gt PR cannot be used for comparison
• -- gt Nearby reference site needed
• Higher time resolution (hourly?) needed

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Examples of self-shading
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Examples
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Examples
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Examples
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Higher time resolution needed