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Next Climate-Sustainability Lecture: Environmental Variables Affecting the Performance of Solar Power Plants
The Climate-Sustainability Lecture Series, hosted by the Halmos College of Natural Sciences and Oceanography, will discuss “Environmental Variables Affecting the Performance of Large-Scale Solar Photovoltaic Power Plants”. This free event will be held in the Mailman-Hollywood building, 2nd floor auditorium, and is open to the NSU community.
The speaker will be Parikhit Sinha, Ph.D., director of sustainable development at First Solar, a global provider of PV solar energy products and solutions. He is a member of the International Energy Agency PVPS Task 12 Committee on PV Environmental, Health, and Safety. Sinha has a doctoral degree in atmospheric sciences from the University of Washington, Seattle, and a B.A. in environmental engineering from Harvard University.
The environmental sciences have been critical to identifying global environmental challenges including climate change. However, they have been less extensively utilized in deploying solutions to those challenges, such as solar energy. Environmental variables such as temperature, humidity, aerosols, clouds, soiling, and snowfall have important effects on solar photovoltaic (PV) performance, and these effects can vary regionally. At this talk, the guest speaker will discuss the current status of large-scale solar PV deployment and the role of environmental variables on photovoltaic performance.