Grid-interactive rooftop photovoltaic clusters with third-party ownership

Optimal Design of Efficient Rooftop Photovoltaic Arrays

This paper addresses a major challenge in the residential solar industry: automated design of cost-effective, efficient rooftop photovoltaic (PV) installations. Optimal designs choose system components, locations, and wiring to minimize cost while meeting desired energy output and complying with all physical and legal constraints. We present a novel lower bound for the energy produced by a PV i...

Performance evaluation of photovoltaic systems on Kuwaiti schools’ rooftop

Photovoltaic (PV) is a high-potential renewable energy technology for Kuwait to pursue due to high daily irradiation, and has garnered local attention in recent years due to the growing energy demand and concerns over climate change. As yet, no data are available regarding the actual performance of PV systems in Kuwait’s harsh environment. This paper presents a 12-month-long performance evaluat...

Quantifying rooftop solar photovoltaic potential for regional renewable energy policy

Quantifying Rooftop Solar Photovoltaic Potential for Regional Renewable Energy Policy L.K. Wiginton, H. T. Nguyen, J.M. Pearce Abstract Solar photovoltaic (PV) technology has matured to become a technically viable largescale source of sustainable energy. Understanding the rooftop PV potential is critical for utility planning, accommodating grid capacity, deploying financing schemes and formulat...

Party Pooper: Third-Party Libraries in Android

Third-party libraries (3PLs), such as advertising networks, gaming networks, and analytics engines, are an integral part of modern mobile platforms. If Android developers want to integrate functionality provided by 3PLs, they must bundle opaque binary code into their applications. Unfortunately, developers must in essence overprivilege their Android applications by requesting dangerous permissi...

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