Could some electronics/PV guru shed light on this ? While browsing some literature on solar power installation design, I came upon the term "power generation factor" for a solar panel. Googling this term has not helped much. Any hints/suggestions as to what this means/measures ?
A bit more context would help - or indeed, a link to the literature in question.
It could be a reference to the proportion of incident energy converted to electrical energy.
It might also be the ratio of the average power generated to the power that would be generated if the panels were in full sunlight 24/7.
Either way, it would be expressed as positive dimensionless value less than 1.
Sylvia.
IIRC it's to do with latitude / geographic location.
ie Alice Springs would have a PGF of say 0.9 while Hobart would be 0.5 or whatever...
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