Experimental Method for Improving Efficiency on Photovoltaic Cell with Using Floating Installation Method

摘要

Electrical energy is the key in the development of human civilization, it causes an increase in electricity production using fossil fuels. This causes the emergence of the need for commissioning Solar PV plants in large scale. The large scale of the project has the problem of land requirement needed for the project that not always available. Installing the Solar PV plants on water bodies like oceans, lake, and reservoir can be an interesting option. Floating type solar panel can have a numerous advantages, one of them are the increase in power yield while also lowering the working temperature of the solar panel. Test carried to measure the influence of floating method by measuring the performance of the solar panel. The data shows that by using this method there has been an increase in power yield by 30.54%. However in regard of temperature, an increase of 6.42% occurred at the time of testing.