Solar Power Generation Problems, Solutions, and Monitoring

Solar Power Generation Problems, Solutions, and Monitoring is a valuable resource for researchers, professionals and graduate students interested in solar power system design. Written to serve as a pragmatic resource for solar photovoltaic power systems financing, it outlines real-life, straightforward design methodology. Using numerous examples, illustrations and an easy to follow design methodology, Peter Gevorkian discusses some of the most significant issues that concern solar power generation including: power output; energy monitoring and energy output enhancement; fault detection; fire and life safety hazard mitigation; and detailed hardware, firmware and software analytic solutions required to resolve solar power technology shortcomings. This essential reference also highlights the significant issues associated with large scale solar photovoltaic and solar power generation technology covering design, construction, deployment and fault detection monitoring as well as life safety hazards.

1. Types of energy sources and energy production and use; 2. Significance of large scale photovoltaic solar power energy production; 3. Concentrator type photovoltaic (CPV) technologies; 4. Issues and problems associated with solar power system design, construction, energy production and economics; 5. How to design and specify large scale solar power systems; 6. Solar power construction and project management; 7. Solar power financing; 8. Large scale solar power system legal issues; 9. Proposed advanced photovoltaic solar power system technology requirements; 10. Micro inverters and peak power tracking (PPT) technologies; 11. Advanced solar power generation and integration with the smart grid; 12. Large scale energy storage systems.

Dr Peter Gevorkian is President of Vector Delta Design Group. His expertise lies in renewable energy sources such as solar power, fuel cells and micro-turbine cogeneration. He is an active member of the Canadian and California Society of Professional Engineers and the California Society of Energy Engineers. Dr Gevorkian has taught computer science, automation control and renewable energy systems engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles, the University of California, Irvine, and the University of California, Riverside. He has published many technical papers for national and international symposiums and has authored seven technical books on renewable energy systems design including Sustainable Energy Systems in Architectural Design, Sustainable Energy System Engineering, Solar Power Systems in Building Design, Alternative Energy Systems in Building Design, and Large Scale Solar Photovoltaic System Design.