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Solar PV guide – the new shade assessment procedureSolar PV guide – the new shade assessment procedure

I can’t quite decide if we have the new procedure for estimating the annual performance of a solar PV system totally sorted (as detailed in the draft of the PV installation guide – Edition 3). I am aware that a number of people are now looking at it in some detail, so I thought it would be useful to describe the thinking behind the revised procedure.

Martin Cotterell

October 10, 2011

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I can’t quite decide if we have the new procedure for estimating the annual performance of a solar PV system totally sorted (as detailed in the draft of the PV installation guide – Edition 3). I am aware that a number of people are now looking at it in some detail, so I thought it would be useful to describe the thinking behind the revised procedure.

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