Concentrated photovoltaics as light harvesters: Outlook, recent progress, and challenges

A Ejaz, H Babar, HM Ali, F Jamil, MM Janjua… - Sustainable Energy …, 2021 - Elsevier
Concentrated photovoltaics (CPV) is a dawn technology in the field of photovoltaic that helps
in escalating the effective use of solar energy. Nowadays, applications of photovoltaic solar …

Review of solar photovoltaic water pumping system technology for irrigation and community drinking water supplies

SS Chandel, MN Naik, R Chandel - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2015 - Elsevier
The deficit in electricity and high diesel costs affects the pumping requirements of community
water supplies and irrigation; so using solar energy for water pumping is a promising …

Off-grid systems for rural electrification in developing countries: Definitions, classification and a comprehensive literature review

S Mandelli, J Barbieri, R Mereu, E Colombo - Renewable and Sustainable …, 2016 - Elsevier
Access to electric power supply has always had a significant role in promoting
improvements in all the society sectors, nevertheless nowadays 1.3 billion of people still do …

A review of solar photovoltaic technologies

B Parida, S Iniyan, R Goic - Renewable and sustainable energy reviews, 2011 - Elsevier
Global environmental concerns and the escalating demand for energy, coupled with steady
progress in renewable energy technologies, are opening up new opportunities for utilization …

Advanced applications of solar energy in agricultural greenhouses

RHE Hassanien, M Li, WD Lin - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2016 - Elsevier
Energy is the largest overhead cost in the production of agricultural greenhouse crops in
temperate climates. Moreover, the initial cost of fossil fuels and traditional energy are …

Review of barriers to the dissemination of decentralized renewable energy systems

M Yaqoot, P Diwan, TC Kandpal - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2016 - Elsevier
This paper reviews the available literature dealing with the barriers to the dissemination of
decentralized renewable energy systems. Decentralized renewable energy systems may …

Solar photovoltaic water pumping system-A comprehensive review

VC Sontake, VR Kalamkar - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
Solar photovoltaic water pumping system (SPVWPS) has been a promising area of research
for more than 50 years. In the early 70s, efforts and studies were undertaken to explore the …

Performance evaluation of stand alone, grid connected and hybrid renewable energy systems for rural application: A comparative review

S Goel, R Sharma - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2017 - Elsevier
The energy demand across the globe has increased in many folds due to technological
advancement, rapid growth in industries and increase in household energy demand. This …

Renewable energy source water pumping systems—A literature review

C Gopal, M Mohanraj, P Chandramohan… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2013 - Elsevier
The research developments with renewable energy source water pumping systems
(RESWPSs) are reviewed in this paper. The reported investigations are categorized into five …

A review on modeling, design methodology and size optimization of photovoltaic based water pumping, standalone and grid connected system

R Rawat, SC Kaushik, R Lamba - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2016 - Elsevier
Solar Photovoltaic system comprises of photovoltaic (PV) array, converter, inverter and
battery storage unit of appropriate capacity to serve the load demand in reliable, efficient …