TOWARD STANDARDIZATION OF SOLAR TRACKERS, CONCENTRATOR PV, AND CAR-ROOF PV

Abstract

IEC TC82 WG7 works for standardization of concentrator modules, and their optics, mechanics and other advanced photovoltaic systems. These standards will be in the general areas of safety, photoelectric performance and environmental reliability tests. The standards ultimately produced should be universal and non-restrictive in their application, taking into account different environments and manufacturing technologies. In addition to the essential electrical and mechanical characteristics, standards will be written for other relevant factors such as thermal performance, high voltage performance, angular performance, mechanical precision, specific testing fault resistance and fault-tolerant design. Recently an expanded group started to discuss standardization of the car-roof PV.