Photovoltaics for Sustainable Electricity and Buildings

This leading-edge volume on advances in photovoltaic technology features diverse contributions from experts in every major geographic PV market. It examines emerging applications such as electricity grid load-balancing and demand- response, PV storage systems, photovoltaic/thermal solar collectors and carbon-offset in buildings. Engineers, researchers, developers and students alike will find new avenues for exploration and fresh insights into this continually evolving field.

• Highlights the most recent advances in Photovoltaics, from Next-Gen Storage Systems to Bifacial PV/T Solar Collectors;
• Provides expert insights on the recent evolution and near future of PV markets around the globe;
• Covers applications from grid-tied storage and power generation to green buildings.

Autorentext

Dr. Ali Sayigh is Chairman and Founder of the World Renewable Energy Congress and Council; Director General of World Renewable Energy Network (WREN); Chairman and Founder of the Arab Solar Energy Society; and Past Chairman of the UK Solar Energy Society. Dr. Sayigh was recently elected to chair the Iraqi Energy Institute, and he actively consults on renewable and sustainable energy issues for a number of international organizations, including UNESCO, ISESCO, UNDP, ESCWA, & UNIDO. Dr. Sayigh was Director of Solar Seminars at ICTP Trieste, Italy from 1977-1995; Professor of Solar Energy at King Saud, Kuwait, and Reading Universities from 1969 to 1994, and Professor of Engineering at the University of Hertfordshire from 1994 to 2004. He was the founding expert in Renewable Energy at AOPEC. He is Fellow of the Institute of Energy; Fellow of the Institution of Electrical Engineers; and Chartered Engin eer. He has published more than 600 papers and has contributed to and edited more than40 books. He has been Editor and Editor in Chief of several international journals including Renewable Energy and the International Journal of Environmental Sciences and Technology and Editor-in-Chief of the Major Reference Work, Comprehensive Renewable Energy.

Inhalt
Introduction.- Photovoltaics as a Major Contributor to the Future Global Energy Needs.- Design of Photovoltaic-Thermal (PV/T) Solar Collectors.- Performance of Photovoltaic/Thermal (PV/T) Solar Collectors.- Recent Advances in Air Based Bifacial Photovoltaic Thermal Solar Collectors.- Photovoltaic and the Energy System: Adaptation of layout and load.- Examples of PV Applications in the USA. Teaching Photovoltaic Principles at the University. Introduction to PV Progress Types and Promises.- Photovoltaic Storage Systems.- 30 years of living in a solar house in Colorado.- Global Applications and Progress in PV.