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Q Renewable Energy Act, 27
Quadrennial energy review (QER), 73 Renewable Energy Act Amendment, 27
Quantum cutting. See Downconversion (DC) Renewable Energy Development Fund
process, photovoltaics (REDF), 27
Quasier–shockley limit, 170 Renewable portfolio standard (RPS), 63
Robust Inverter-Based Control Loop Design,
R 76
Radiated IR frequency, 4
Radiative recombination, 157 S
Renewable energy, 4, 63 Schottky barrier, 223, 225
economic theory, 489 Selenium (Se), 454
biomass, 490 Self-commutated inverters, 339
capital cost, 490 Shingled cell modules, 206
complementary slacknvess conditions, Shockley–Queisser theoretical efficiency limit
492 (S-Q limit), 279
electrical storage, 490 Siemens method, 182
energy storage, 490 Silicon, 215, 227
equimarginal principle, 491, 493 Silicon solar cells, 3
Kuhn-Tucker conditions, 493 Silver (Ag), 455
Lagrangian equation, 492 Single step solution deposition, 236, 237
growth, 63 Small-scale PV systems, domestic applications
microeconomic considerations bidirectional inverter and battery storage,
aggregate supply curve and market 335
demand curve, 488 cell and module level failures
annual energy output, 486 delamination and moisture ingress, 347
capital cost, 487 encapsulate discoloration, 348, 349
electrical energy, 489 hot spots, 346
equimarginal principle, 488 infant failures, 348, 349
LCOE, 486 interconnects, 347
marginal costs, 487, 488, 489 micro-cracks, 346
production and transmission costs, 489 midlife-failures, 348, 349
Obama Administration, 63 potential induced degradation effect, 348
renewable energy intermittency, Vermont shading, 345, 346
biomass energy, 499 snail trail contamination, 347
cost minimization, 497, 498 wear-out-failures, 348, 349
Green Mountain Power, 493 converter topologies, features of
Kingdom Community Wind project, 494 grid-tied converter topologies, 339–341
LCOE, 498, 499, 500 grid-tied inverters, electrical
LCOE D , 495, 496 requirements, 338
model hydropower project, 494 DC/DC converter and battery storage, 335
50 MW McNeil Generating Station, 494 direct DC connection, 333, 335
Northfield Mountain pumped hydro electrical characteristics, PV cells/modules
plant, 495 current–voltage characteristic curve, 336
optimization software, 497 MPPT, 337, 338
production capacity, 497 solar irradiances and temperatures, 337
Renewable Energy Academies, 73 emerging converter topologies
