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Sandia National Laboratories
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PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY
define what requirements this hardware must meet. It then tests and
evaluates the units against the requirements. In this way, great strides
have been made in developing residential, commercial, and industrial
hardware that can be manufactured at lower cost, yet retain the high
efficiency required of a subsystem.
Application Experiments - In the Application Experiments
Project, Sandia is responsible for planning, implementing, and evaluating
on-site, intermediate-size, PV systems. An essential part of this project is
feeding back results of field experiments into the Systems/Subsystems
Engineering and the Collector Development projects of the NationalPV Program for future improvements. At present, Sandia has technical
responsibility to manage five flat-plate and five concentrator
experiments and for acquiring data at the site.
Test Facility - Sandia has constructed a PV Advanced
Systems Test Facility (PASTF) to test PV systems in actual sunlight,
under well-instrumented conditions. The facility is used to investigate
the latest concentrator PV arrays and to qualify experimental hardware
for major experiments off site. Power conditioners, dc-to-ac converters
(inverters) for power conditioners, electric storage in batteries, and
utility-connecting hardware can also be tested at the PASTF.DISCLAIMER
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United States Government or any agency thereof.MAST P,
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Photovoltaic technology development at Sandia National Laboratories, report, December 31, 1981; Albuquerque, New Mexico. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc693027/m1/3/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.