Preface to Grid Connected Solar Electric Systems

The worldwide marketplace for grid-connected photo voltaic electrical methods has elevated from 1.55 gigawatts (GW) put in in 2006 to 11.86GW in 2010.

This 2010 determine represents a rise of 665 per cent over the 2006 determine.

It’s to be anticipated that most of the people in addition to tradesmen, technicians and different professionals will want details about all facets of grid-connected photo voltaic as they see these methods put in of their suburbs and on bigger roof areas; they may also want to know the way it impacts their lives.

Within the absence of fundamental know-how and set up data, how and why gridconnected photo voltaic electrical methods work and the worth they’ll symbolize for the electrical energy grid could also be misrepresented.

As might be seen by the rise within the grid-connected photo voltaic electrical market, the know-how and manufacturing of photo voltaic modules and enabling merchandise (e.g. inverters, mounting constructions and so on.) are actually mature;

Product demand has been growing from 12 months to 12 months with wholesome ahead projections, so many extra producers have moved into this know-how market, driving costs down;

Governments all over the world have launched numerous financial drivers for renewable power, with these affecting photo voltaic electrical methods being usually subsidies, feed-in tariffs and redeemable renewable power credit.

International Sustainable Power Options was happy to be approached by Earthscan to write down this guide now, as a result of the market demand for the product clearly demonstrates a necessity for data in any respect ranges.

This guide is appropriate for anybody desirous to study grid-connected photo voltaic electrical methods beginning with the reason of photo voltaic radiation, its origin, photo voltaic modules, photo voltaic electrical methods, system composition, system set up, by to the economics of those methods.

International Sustainable Power Options was happy to be approached by Earthscan to write down this guide now, as a result of the market demand for the product clearly demonstrates a necessity for data in any respect ranges.

This guide is appropriate for anybody desirous to study grid-connected photo voltaic electrical methods beginning with the reason of photo voltaic radiation, its origin, photo voltaic modules, photo voltaic electrical methods, system composition, system set up, by to the economics of those methods.

Thanks are as a result of quite a few individuals who have contributed time and/or data throughout the evolution of this guide:

Caitlin Trethewy, who has labored from day one on this publication amassing data, researching, writing content material and progressively modifying the chapters to completion;

the employees at International Sustainable Power Options Pty Ltd who’ve contributed to the guide growth; Pamela Silva for her contribution whereas in Australia from the US;

Anthony Allen for his technical drawing expertise; all picture suppliers, whom we belief are accurately acknowledged; the businesses and people who’ve supplied us with case examine data and photographs as follows:

Blair Reynolds, BMC Solar (www.bmcsolar. com), Briana Inexperienced and Inexperienced Solar Group (www.greensolargroup.com.au), Frank Jackson, Paul Barwell, Tony J. Almond and Planet Power Options (www.planetenergy.co.uk).

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