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Solar Home Systems—A Description of the Technology and Its Applications

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Photovoltaics for Rural Electrification in Developing Countries

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The concept behind the design of a renewable energy supply system is the technical, economic, social and ecological optimisation of the various components—the renewable energy generator, the energy storage unit, as well as the operating philosophy, which involves the energy management system, load shedding, dumping of generated energy and conventional generator backup. In this section, stand-alone photovoltaic systems for rural electrification are presented from a technical point of view with a focus on solar home systems. The knowledge on the components and the overall system enables the above design of solar home systems.

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    Tania Urmee

  2. University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, Australia

    David Harries

  3. University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany

    Hans-Gerhard Holtorf

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Urmee, T., Harries, D., Holtorf, HG. (2016). Solar Home Systems—A Description of the Technology and Its Applications. In: Photovoltaics for Rural Electrification in Developing Countries. Green Energy and Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03789-9_2

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