Performance Evaluation of Crystalline and Amorphous Photovoltaic Cell: The Case of Usen Community, Edo State
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An outdoor experimental study was conducted to investigate and compare the performance of two commercially available photovoltaic modules (polycrystalline and amorphous silicon) under the effect of temperature change in Use community, Edo State for the month of January to April, 2016. Maximum power, module efficiency and fill factor are calculated for each module and comparison is presented. Results have shown that polycrystalline module perform better at high irradiance and show poor performance in low irradiance conditions. Amorphous solar module has shown, better performance in low light condition and having high fill factor (FF). Polycrystalline photovoltaic module is found to be more efficient, having module efficiency of 23.5% higher than that of amorphous modules. As a result of better performance in low solar irradiance, amorphous solar module has shown daily average fill factor of 0.62 which is higher than polycrystalline module under study.
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