Project Title: Evaluation of Power Output, Efficiency, and Reliability Characteristics of the Amonix Power Generation System

Scope

NV Portfolio Standard

• 175,000 Renewable Energy Credits per year

Nevada Power, NREL and UNLV collaboration on monitoring

• Further research and knowledge of IHCPV

Objectives

• Characterize the power and energy performance
• Identify and quantify losses
• Investigate ways of improving performance
• Determine long term power/energy performance
• Estimate annual energy performance
• Generate reliability database
• Estimate of MTBF and MTBI of system, subsystem, components
• Identify and correct problem areas

Status

• NSWEP program is very beneficial to development of Amonix technology
• Identified areas where performance and reliability can be improved
• Testing of the new receiver plate
• Proving ground for testing new ideas
• Established this equipment's reliability in an urban, NV environment
• Location: Clark Generation Station, Las Vegas
  • Install 3 units or 75 kW of Amonix systems

Learn more about the current status of this solar project by downloading a recent presentation given at the NSWEP Program Review.
(PowerPoint 2.96 MB)

Contact

Allison Gray
University of Nevada — Las Vegas
E-mail: agray@unlv.nevada.edu