I’m Jennifer Lee, an undergraduate student at Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, CA. Currently I’m involved in an engineering project that aims to provide a solar energy storage system for rural communities in Jharkhand, India. We are designing such a system that would actually be built and used sometime this year. For this purpose, we have been running experiments and proof-of-concepts, and one of the issues that we are looking into is the efficiency of the solar collectors. We want to account for all of the variables in a testing procedure, and as there are many manufacturers of FPSC’s globally, we thought it’d be wise to see exactly how these efficiency values are determined. What procedures are used?

I would very much appreciate your concern and response!

Thanks so much,

Jennifer Lee