Impact of Solar Cell Infrastructures on Energy Efficiency in Power Grid Integration
Abstract
Photovoltaic technology harvest electrical energy by stimulating liberated electrons within the semiconductor layers using solar radiation. Photovoltaic technology produces electrical energy by collecting electrons that are liberated in a semiconductor pn-junction by solar radiation. Photovoltaic solar cells have layered semiconductor structures and this study utilised for this objective. Current researches on energy storage with solar cells, focused to optimise the utilisation of the generated energy with cell efficiency. This study offers a thorough analysis of the energy efficiency of solar cells based on their infrastructures. The study involved obtaining computational visuals and doing efficiency verification. This was done by comparing the impact of different chemical structures on energy production. The MATLAB software was used with fixed parameters and varying efficiency. The results show that the Monocrystalline N-Type IBC model exhibits the maximum efficiency in terms of PV cell structure. The MIBC structure is more efficient than polycrystalline cells and also standard monotypes with high temperatures. This allows the cell to reflect itself and passivise the cell base, resulting in a 5% or more increase in energy production. Standard monotype cell has %16.2 efficiency and Monotype IBC has %20.1 efficiency results achieved with PVsyst and Matlab softwares. The results of the calculations were applied in real time and confirmed by testing the impact of structural differences on efficiency with real climate data
Keywords
Solar cell, Energy efficiency, Renewables integration, Power grid
Ethical Statement
The author declares that there are no conflict of interests.
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