2015-2016 Academic Year
Event Title
Environmental Variables Affecting the Performance of Large-Scale Solar Photovoltaic Power Plants
Date of Event
Wednesday, March 23, 2016, 12:10 PM to 1:00 PM
Location
Mailman-Hollywood Building, Second Floor Auditorium
Description
The environmental sciences have been critical to identifying global environmental challenges such as climate change, but they have been less extensively utilized in deploying solutions to those challenges, such as solar energy. Environmental variables such as temperature, humidity, aerosols, clouds, soiling, and snowfall have important effects on solar PV performance, and these effects can vary regionally. The current status of large-scale solar PV deployment will be discussed along with the role of environmental variables on PV performance.
Included in
Energy Policy Commons, Environmental Education Commons, Environmental Health and Protection Commons, Environmental Indicators and Impact Assessment Commons, Environmental Monitoring Commons, Environmental Policy Commons, Natural Resource Economics Commons, Natural Resources and Conservation Commons, Natural Resources Management and Policy Commons, Oil, Gas, and Energy Commons, Other Environmental Sciences Commons, Sustainability Commons, Water Resource Management Commons
Environmental Variables Affecting the Performance of Large-Scale Solar Photovoltaic Power Plants
Mailman-Hollywood Building, Second Floor Auditorium
The environmental sciences have been critical to identifying global environmental challenges such as climate change, but they have been less extensively utilized in deploying solutions to those challenges, such as solar energy. Environmental variables such as temperature, humidity, aerosols, clouds, soiling, and snowfall have important effects on solar PV performance, and these effects can vary regionally. The current status of large-scale solar PV deployment will be discussed along with the role of environmental variables on PV performance.
Presenter Bio
Dr. Parikhit Sinha is a Director of Sustainable Development, Environmental at First Solar, where he leads the company’s research on environmental product safety and life cycle assessment. He is a member of the International Energy Agency PVPS Task 12 Committee on PV Environmental, Health, and Safety.
He is a former study director at the U.S. National Academy of Sciences Board of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate. He has a Ph.D. in atmospheric sciences from the University of Washington, Seattle, and a B.A. in environmental engineering from Harvard University.