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Front. Energy Res.
Sec. Solar Energy
Volume 13 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fenrg.2025.1519131
This article is part of the Research Topic Reviews in Energy Research 2024 View all articles

The impact of different PV panel technologies on the electrical energy production and on the CO 2 emissions reduction

Provisionally accepted
Iva Batic Iva Batic *
  • School of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia

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    With the increase in the human population on the Earth, there is also an increased need for energy. One of the ways to meet ecologically and economically justifiable energy needs is the inclusion of renewable energy sources. Given that the need for electrical energy is increasing, this paper analyzes the potential of Serbia for the production of electrical energy from the solar radiation. The Sun is the largest source of the renewable energy and Serbia has a very good potential of the solar radiation. In this paper a comparative analysis of the electrical energy production of the photovoltaic power plants which use different technologies of photovoltaic panels was done. The different technologies of photovoltaic panels affect the degree of conversion of solar irradiation into the electrical energy, but they also affect the ecological parameters of the use of photovoltaic panels by reducing CO 2 emissions for each of the systems. In this paper the following technologies of photovoltaic panels are analyzed: monocrystalline, polycrystalline, thin-layer amorphous (a-Si) and cadmium-telluride (CdTe). The software tool used in this research is PVsyst.

    Keywords: Renewable sources, Solar Energy, PV Panels, environment, Reducing CO 2

    Received: 29 Oct 2024; Accepted: 13 Jan 2025.

    Copyright: © 2025 Batic. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Iva Batic, School of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia

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