Air Quality on PV [RE-wrenches]

Lynne A Carter solarvil at netpath.net
Tue Apr 10 19:10:40 PDT 2001


Bill,
How are you? I hope CA is treating you well. That is a wonderful site lots
of neat info, thank you!   I used the calculator and we came up with the
numbers we are offsetting. Ox lbs. 255, SO2 lbs. 460, CO2 lbs. 59,498 and
got a net profit on the total mileage for all the company/personal cars,
trucks and vans. That's fun.
I did not see any information on effects of air quality on PV power ratings.
Air Quality, in NC is very dirty air. We see humidity (water vapor in the
air) but we also see air pollution. I am hoping to find a number that I
might use to calculate the decreased photovoltaic electricity that dirty air
may cause. Like a code "orange," "red" and maybe "purple" how much power am
I loosing from the lack of good air quality? I may have missed this at the
site it is quite large.  Let me know if I am wrong.
Today its in the 90's and were seeing lots of haze the power production is
down. Luckily, all this hot air brought in some wind and looks like a
thunderstorm soon. It could be the photovoltaic arrays are responding to the
temperature or the pollution or water vapor.
We size systems a little larger to compensate for the summer temperatures
and the pollution.  This year it could get very bad because of all the coal
electric plants that are firing up.

Lyn at solarvillage.com
Solar Village Institute inc.
PO Box 14
Saxapahaw, NC  27340
Tel. 336-376-9530
Fax. 336-376-1809


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