Impact of Environmental Factors on The Performance of Solar PV Cells: An Experimental Study

Abstract

Nowadays the conventional generation system is not able fulfill the exponential growth of electricity demand and in the other hand; the conventional resources are diminishing at a faster rate. To meet the future energy demand the use of renewable energy sources has increasing considerably. Among all sources, the use of solar energy is increasing rapidly due to its availability and advancement in Photovoltaic technology. But the main drawback of the photovoltaic system is its low efficiency. Some of the natural factors like temperature, irradiance, dust, shading, color spectrum, humidity, wind velocity, snow are affecting the solar PV performance. In this paper effect of natural factors on the output of solar panel and how they co-related to each other is analyzed by an experimental work.