Autonomous Winter Solar Panel

Here in buffalo an average day in winter is just grey.

Autonomous winter solar panel. Disclosed herein is an autonomous solar panel for use in winter conditions. It doesn t snow every day and most days my solar panels are clean. Winter will only hurt solar production if the panels are covered with snow. Autonomous cleaning and inspection of solar power installations.

The autonomous winter solar panel or awsp lets modules operate efficiently in all conditions. Sunshot is exploring other ways to help pv panels withstand the elements of winter through our support of the duramat consortium led by the national renewable energy laboratory. Us20140041713a1 us13 507 958 us201213507958a us2014041713a1 us 20140041713 a1 us20140041713 a1 us 20140041713a1 us 201213507958 a us201213507958 a us 201213507958a us 2014041713 a. The white snow can also reflect light and help improve pv performance.

A common myth is that solar panels do not work during winter. Solar panel awsp is an autonomous system which removes winter precipitation from photo voltaic panels allowing them to operate efficiently in all conditions where frozen precipitation may accumulate. This is what that looks like. Interestingly the cold temperature will typically improve solar panel output.

Blizzard solar is an international firm specializing in the development of autonomous cleaning technologies for the solar farm utility scale solar projects and residential solar industry. That s according to solar team eindhoven a sun worshipping group of academics that emerged from the eindhoven university of technology and has been honing some of the world s most advanced solar powered cars in the netherlands since 2012. If every day was like this i d get 120 kwh for the month which is pretty exactly what my 5 year. The sun rises at 8 am and sets at 4 pm.

A sensor is in communication with the energy transfer member. A power supply is connected to the energy transfer member. Tests done on solar panels in arid regions show that the dust accumulated in six months can cause a massive 40 decrease in efficiency. Researchers found that even a fine layer of dust can be enough to cause efficiency to drop by 10.

The system which can be can be integrated into manufacturers panel design senses the presence of winter precipitation on the panel. The technology ensures maximum photo voltaic efficiency in areas snow and ice would normally reduce or negate solar energy output. The anti soiling properties of snow inherently make solar panels cleaner and able to reach higher efficiencies. Let the sunshine in.

The panel includes at least one energy transfer member associated with the solar panel. The amount of power emitted from the sun that strikes the earth in one hour is more than the whole world consumes in a year. The goal of each blizzard solar technology is to maximize the efficiency of solar power output in all weather conditions and further eliminate the need for costly cleaning methods currently being used in the industry today.