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What is a PV system?

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Post Score: 0#1 Feb 26, 2008 at 7:04 pm 

FRandallFarmer

Perhaps a wiki page for each acronym so that people can just link to them in useful articles like this one.

 

I'm guessing that PV stands for Photo-Voltaic or something that means Solar Powered, since this wiki is in that section...

 

 

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Post Score: 0#2 Mar 26, 2008 at 1:20 pm 

stins
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Originally Posted by FRandallFarmer:

Perhaps a wiki page for each acronym so that people can just link to them in useful articles like this one.

 

I'm guessing that PV stands for Photo-Voltaic or something that means Solar Powered, since this wiki is in that section...

 

 

 

PV does stand for photovoltaic.  Here are the first few sentences from Wikipedia:

Photovoltaics, or PV for short, is a technology that converts light directly into electricity. Photovoltaics is also the field of study relating to this technology and there are many research institutes devoted to work on photovoltaics.[1][2] Due to the growing need for solar energy, the manufacture of solar cells and solar photovoltaic array has expanded dramatically in recent years.[3][4][5] Photovoltaic production has been doubling every two years, increasing by an average of 48 percent each year since 2002, making it the world’s fastest-growing energy technology.

 

We definitely do need a general intro to solar wiki - we have a few on pretty specific topics (e.g. PV selection, tilting your solar collector, and financial considerations).  Perhaps one of our users wants to start it off?

 

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Post Score: 0#3 Mar 31, 2008 at 8:20 pm 

stins

Looks like Deej took the lead on that Intro to Solar wiki.

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