2026-09-18T21:34:33Zhttps://dspace.mit.edu/server/oai/request

oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/987322022-01-13T07:55:22Zcom_1721.1_7582com_1721.1_7581col_1721.1_131023

Jeffrey Grossman and Nicola Ferralis. Cheimets, Anna Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Materials Science and Engineering. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Materials Science and Engineering 2015-09-17T19:08:09Z 2015-09-17T19:08:09Z 2015 2015 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/98732 920874952 Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, 2015. Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. Includes bibliographical references (pages 61-62). Solar photovoltaic (PV) deployment has been steadily expanding over the past decade. While decreasing our reliance on fossil fuels will be beneficial for the environment, increasing our exposure to an intermittent renewable resource could have negative consequences on the electric grid. There can be oversupply conditions at midday when PV is outputting at peak power and also steep ramping of fossil fuel plants when PV is coming on or going off line. In this project, we investigated how to use more of the three-dimensional landscape of a residential neighborhood to flatten and lengthen the PV power profile. We built small modular houses with solar panels to characterize different configurations of solar panels and reflectors. We designed and built a set of I-V curve measurement instruments to allow us to collect separate I-V curve measurements from the difference faces of the experimental houses. We found that placing solar panels on the east and west facing roofs and walls of houses expands the power profile but it also leads to more interhouse shading which we quantified in our energy generation of the walls they abutted. Taken together, our findings give us the beginnings of a suite of techniques to apply to real neighborhoods with the aim of broadening the PV power profile and enabling solar panel deployment in previously overlooked areas. by Anna Cheimets. S.M. 64 pages eng Massachusetts Institute of Technology M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission. http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582 Materials Science and Engineering. Collaborative solar powered neighborhoods Thesis application/pdf false Publication unknown unknown <Publication xmlns="https://www.openaire.eu/cerif-profile/1.1/" id="f915974c-4793-464f-804e-3992c028add0"> <Type xmlns="https://www.openaire.eu/cerif-profile/vocab/COAR_Publication_Types">http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_1843</Type> <Language>eng</Language> <Title>Collaborative solar powered neighborhoods</Title> <PublishedIn> <Publication> </Publication> </PublishedIn> <PublicationDate>2015</PublicationDate> <Authors> <Author> <DisplayName>Cheimets, Anna</DisplayName> <Affiliation> <OrgUnit> </OrgUnit> </Affiliation> </Author> </Authors> <Editors> </Editors> <Publishers> <Publisher> <DisplayName>Massachusetts Institute of Technology</DisplayName> <OrgUnit /> </Publisher> </Publishers> <License>http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582</License> <Keyword>Materials Science and Engineering.</Keyword> <Abstract>Solar photovoltaic (PV) deployment has been steadily expanding over the past decade. While decreasing our reliance on fossil fuels will be beneficial for the environment, increasing our exposure to an intermittent renewable resource could have negative consequences on the electric grid. There can be oversupply conditions at midday when PV is outputting at peak power and also steep ramping of fossil fuel plants when PV is coming on or going off line. In this project, we investigated how to use more of the three-dimensional landscape of a residential neighborhood to flatten and lengthen the PV power profile. We built small modular houses with solar panels to characterize different configurations of solar panels and reflectors. We designed and built a set of I-V curve measurement instruments to allow us to collect separate I-V curve measurements from the difference faces of the experimental houses. We found that placing solar panels on the east and west facing roofs and walls of houses expands the power profile but it also leads to more interhouse shading which we quantified in our energy generation of the walls they abutted. Taken together, our findings give us the beginnings of a suite of techniques to apply to real neighborhoods with the aim of broadening the PV power profile and enabling solar panel deployment in previously overlooked areas.</Abstract> <Access xmlns="http://purl.org/coar/access_right" > </Access> </Publication>