Energy-based metric for analysis of organic PV devices in comparison with conventional industrial technologies

摘要

The emerging thin-film photovoltaic (PV) technologies show the potential to compete in the future market with the currently dominant crystalline silicon (c-Si) technology. A comparison of the different technologies based on their module performance rated at Standard Test Conditions (STC) is a commonly accepted method in the PV community. However, despite being a useful tool, it does not give enough information to accurately predict how much energy a PV module would deliver in the field when subjected to the wide range of real operating conditions.