Modeling and Standardization Researches and Discussions of the Car-roof PV through International Web Meetings

A car-roof photovoltaic (PV) has significant potential. The activities of international standardization through a series of web meetings have been done by 51 volunteer scientists and engineers from 15 different countries with a good mixture of scientists, manufacturers, and testing laboratories. Specifically, it covered (1) Irradiance modeling onto the car-roof; (2) Curve correction of the PV output; (3) Quantification of partial shading loss; (4) Performance testing conditions; (5) Effective solar resource on the car-roof impacted by shadows of surrounding buildings; (6) Environmental testing conditions.