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1,000 kilowatts, or 1 million watts; standard measure of electric power plant generating capacity.
Industry:Energy
1,000 kilowatt-hours or 1 million watt-hours.
Industry:Energy
A small groove scribed into the surface of a solar cell, which is filled with metal for contacts.
Industry:Energy
A current carrier, either an electron or a hole, that is in the minority in a specific layer of a semiconductor material; the diffusion of minority carriers under the action of the cell junction voltage is the current in a photovoltaic device.
Industry:Energy
The average time a minority carrier exists before recombination.
Industry:Energy
A waveform that has at least three states (i.e., positive, off, and negative). Has less harmonic content than a square wave.
Industry:Energy
The use of multiple inverters connected in parallel to service different loads.
Industry:Energy
See photovoltaic (PV) module.
Industry:Energy
A factor that lowers the photovoltaic module current to account for field operating conditions such as dirt accumulation on the module.
Industry:Energy
Fabricated as a single structure.
Industry:Energy