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Foreword | ||
Preface to the First Edition | ||
Preface to the Second Edition | ||
List of Contributors | ||
Note on Energy Units | ||
1 | Electricity from the Sun | 1 |
Why we need photovoltaics | 1 | |
2 | Solar Radiation | 5 |
Energy from the Sun | 7 | |
3 | Solar Cells | 23 |
What are solar cells? | 25 | |
How solar cells work | 26 | |
Silicon solar cell technology | 46 | |
Thin-film solar cells | 62 | |
4 | Photovoltaic System Engineering | 81 |
Structure of a photovoltaic system | 83 | |
The photovoltaic generator | 85 | |
Energy storage | 93 | |
Power conditioning and control | 98 | |
Sizing photovoltaic systems | 110 | |
Photovoltaic-diesel hybrid energy systems | 120 | |
5 | Applications | 137 |
Economics of PV installations | 142 | |
Rural electrification | 155 | |
Water pumping | 163 | |
Professional applications | 168 | |
Electric power generation in space | 180 | |
Grid-connected systems | 188 | |
6 | Environmental Impacts of Photovoltaics | 209 |
The need for environmental assessment of energy sources | 210 | |
Methodological framework | 211 | |
Environmental costs of photovoltaics | 214 | |
7 | Advanced and Specialised Topics | 225 |
Large PV projects | 226 | |
Photovoltaics under concentrated sunlight | 234 | |
Electrochemical photovoltaics | 247 | |
Alternative storage: the hydrogen economy | 260 | |
Index | 271 |
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