Browsing by Author "Florides, Michalis"
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Characterisation of the Shunt Resistance due to Potential Induced Degradation (PID) in Crystalline Solar Cells
Florides, Michalis; Makrides, George; Georghiou, George E. (2018)Different solutions have been proposed for the detection of potential induced degradation (PID), however, none of them has been proven reliable and cost effective so far. Therefore, a detection mechanism is required in the ...
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Development of building-integrated Photovoltaic (BIPV) innovative courseware for higher education and professionals
Livera, Andreas; Florides, Michalis; Theristis, Marios; Makrides, George; Georghiou, George E. (IEEE, 2018)Accurate and consistent performance assessment of photovoltaic (PV) systems with the use of advanced failure diagnostic tools is essential to safeguard high levels of production. The scope of this work is to propose a ...
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Early Detection of Potential Induced Degradation by Measurement of the Forward DC Resistance in Crystalline PV Cells
Florides, Michalis; Makrides, George; Georghiou, George E. (2019)Potential induced degradation (PID) is still a serious threat for the photovoltaic (PV) industry and it is expected to aggravate due to the tendency to increase the operating voltage of PV systems. Therefore, a method which ...
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Early potential induced degradation (PID) detection in the field: Cell shunt resistance characterisation at different degradation rates
Florides, Michalis; Makrides, George; Georghiou, George (2018)This paper examines the use of two different voltage measurement methods which could be used to detect Potential Induced Degradation (PID) in the field before any significant power loss occurs. The two methods are the open ...
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Economic viability of battery energy storage system applications
Yianni, Christos; Florides, Michalis; Afxentis, Stavros; Efthymiou, Venizelos; Georghiou, George E. (2018)Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) can provide a number of applications to the grid operators, utilities and consumers, with different financial potentials. In this paper, services and application cases with high economic ...
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Enabling rising penetration and added value of photovoltaic generation by implemention of advanced storage systems (Erigeneia)
Florides, Michalis; Oureilidis, Konstantinos; Efthymiou, Venizelos; Georghiou, George; Bayindir, Kamil; Kubicek, Bernhard; Kathan, Johannes; Ubermasser, Stefan; Rechberger, Philipp; Heigl, Hannes; Kilic, Andac; Batar, Gokhan; Bayramoğlu, Ahmet; Violaris, Alexis; Papageorgiou, Ioannis; Baykal, Safak; Terciyanli, Alper (2019)Photovoltaic (PV) technology is considered as a very promising solution for electricity generation in the quest for combating climate change. However, several grid issues are emerging when its share in the electricity ...
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Energy class dependent residential battery storage sizing for PV systems in Cyprus
Afxentis, Stavros; Florides, Michalis; Machamint, Vasilis; Yianni, Christos; Norgaard, Per; Bindner, Hendrik; Kathan, Johannes; Brunner, Helfried; Mayr, Christoph; Anastassiou, Charalambos; Efthymiou, Venizelos; Georghiou, George Elia (2019)Battery energy storage systems (BESS) have started to be part of the photovoltaic (PV) system design to allow the further penetration of PV into the grid. This study deals with the sizing (power and energy capacity) of a ...
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Failure diagnosis of short- and open-circuit fault conditions in PV systems
Livera, Andreas; Florides, Michalis; Theristis, Marios; Makrides, George; Georghiou, George E. (IEEE, 2018)Accurate and consistent performance assessment of photovoltaic (PV) systems with the use of advanced failure diagnostic tools is essential to safeguard high levels of production. The scope of this work is to propose a ...
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Investigation of solar spectral irradiance measurements using the spectral matching ratio
Paraskeva, Vasiliki; Florides, Michalis; Theristis, Marios; Georghiou, George E. (2018)The spectral matching ratio (SMR) is an index used to classify the direct solar spectrum based on the relative difference between the spectrum under study and the reference AM1.5 spectrum. This paper evaluates the spectral ...
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Optimised Control of 10 MW Photovoltaic (PV) Plant with 1MW / 1MWh Battery
Norgaard, P.; Bindner, Henrik W.; Thavlov, Anders; Florides, Michalis; Venizelou, Venizelos; Patsalides, M.; Anastassiou, Charalambos; Makrides, George; Efthymiou, V.; Georghiou, George E. (2016)With the existing energy systems and electricity grids worldwide being developed as smart systems and grids with increased renewable energy in general, there are critical needs in smart grid knowledge, development, testing, ...
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Residential battery storage sizing based on daily PV production and consumption load profile characterization
Afxentis, Stavros; Florides, Michalis; Theocharides, Spyros; Venizelou, Venizelos; Georghiou, George (2018)The integration of battery energy storage systems (BESS) to existing grid-connected residential PV systems can reduce issues stemming from the increased PV penetration and at the same time improve the performance of the ...
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Shunt Resistance Relation to Power Loss due to Potential Induced Degradation in Crystalline Photovoltaic Cells
Florides, Michalis; Livera, Andreas; Makrides, George; Georghiou, George E. (2019)Potential Induced Degradation (PID) is expected to become more frequent with the increased system voltage of photovoltaic (PV) systems. Thus, a PID detection method is required to detect PID at an early stage in order to ...