A comparison study of three photovoltaic technologies in Jordan climate.

The wide use of renewable energy technologies, especially photovoltaic system technologies is required to know and find the main factors and parameters for the productivity and efficiency. This paper presents the real and decisive parameters for generating and harvesting the maximum energy from three different kinds of photovoltaic technologies, which are the (Poly-Crystalline, Mono-Crystalline, and Thin Film cells) based on the conditions of the Jordanian Climate. In this work, a real data was generated using installing the three different kinds of PV technologies in three districts in Jordan (north, middle, south) to customizes the best technology with the optimum azimuth and tilt angle. This wok shows that the optimum technology in north is (mono-technology) with optimum tilt angle (15◦), in middle is (mono-technology) with optimum tilt angle (10◦), and in south is (m0no-technology) with optimum tilt angle (19◦). It is known that the energy generated by the same renewable energy technology varies by location. Likewise, the energy obtained from two different technologies may differ in the same location even if both systems have the same nominal capacity. It is the target of this paper to collect the actual and the accurate data of two photovoltaic systems with the same nominal capacity but use two different technologies. This is accomplished by installing different systems in the same location, studying the environmental and weather effects on energy production and quality while collecting real data that will be used later for further investigation. Finally, a comparison of technologies and how they withstand environmental conditions in Jordan is silicon and thin film silicon photo voltaic panels. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]