Collaborative solar powered neighborhoods

Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, 2015.

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Main Author: Cheimets, Anna
Other Authors: Jeffrey Grossman and Nicola Ferralis.
Format: Thesis
Language:eng
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2015
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/98732
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spelling mit-1721.1/987322019-04-10T18:17:01Z Collaborative solar powered neighborhoods Cheimets, Anna Jeffrey Grossman and Nicola Ferralis. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Materials Science and Engineering. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Materials Science and Engineering. Materials Science and Engineering. Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, 2015. Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. Includes bibliographical references (pages 61-62). Solar photovoltaic (PV) deployment has been steadily expanding over the past decade. While decreasing our reliance on fossil fuels will be beneficial for the environment, increasing our exposure to an intermittent renewable resource could have negative consequences on the electric grid. There can be oversupply conditions at midday when PV is outputting at peak power and also steep ramping of fossil fuel plants when PV is coming on or going off line. In this project, we investigated how to use more of the three-dimensional landscape of a residential neighborhood to flatten and lengthen the PV power profile. We built small modular houses with solar panels to characterize different configurations of solar panels and reflectors. We designed and built a set of I-V curve measurement instruments to allow us to collect separate I-V curve measurements from the difference faces of the experimental houses. We found that placing solar panels on the east and west facing roofs and walls of houses expands the power profile but it also leads to more interhouse shading which we quantified in our energy generation of the walls they abutted. Taken together, our findings give us the beginnings of a suite of techniques to apply to real neighborhoods with the aim of broadening the PV power profile and enabling solar panel deployment in previously overlooked areas. by Anna Cheimets. S.M. 2015-09-17T19:08:09Z 2015-09-17T19:08:09Z 2015 2015 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/98732 920874952 eng M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission. http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582 64 pages application/pdf Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Collaborative solar powered neighborhoods
title Collaborative solar powered neighborhoods
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title_fullStr Collaborative solar powered neighborhoods
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topic Materials Science and Engineering.
url http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/98732
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