Accelerating the simulation of annual bifacial illumination of real photovoltaic systems with ray tracing

Summary: Accurate modeling of bifacial illumination is critical to improve the prediction of the energy yield of bifacial solar systems. Monte Carlo ray tracing is the most powerful tool to accomplish this task. In this work, we accelerate Monte Carlo ray tracing of large solar systems by nearly 90%...

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Main Authors: Marco Ernst, Georgia E.J. Conechado, Charles-Alexis Asselineau
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2022-01-01
Series:iScience
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004221016680