The information included in this

presentation has been provided

by the Maine Solar Energy

Association

Photovoltaic-Thermal Hybrid Systems

NESEA Building Energy Workshop 2009

Rich Komp home in Maine with PV-hot water

Hybrid collector on the lower roof

Building a

PV-hot water

Hybrid module

at a workshop

in Maine

How Solar Cells Work

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Workshop built PV-hybrid being installed

Pasamaquoddy PV-Hybrid workshop

Installing the new PV-Hybrid on the roof in Maine

Cross-section of a PV-hot water Hybrid Module

Thermal performance of the PV-hot water Hybrid

PV Hybrid output voltage versus Temperature

Nicaraguan PV-Hybrid workshop

PV-Hot Water Hybrid project at the National Institute of

Engineering in Mysore, India. This project uses a new

design of the Al plate holding the PV cells with a box water

passage instead of the fin extrusion with a copper tube.

PV-warm air hybrid built into a greenhouse

This system was built in 1983 in Kentucky

PV-Thermal Hybrid at Chewonki camp in Maine

This system has a transpiration solar air heater

under the commercial photovoltaic modules.

PV-air heat recovery hybrid system in Italy

Diagram of a Canadian PV-warm air Hybrid System

Simple PV-hot water hybrid

This system has standard PV modules with

plastic tubing glued to the back to carry water

SolarWatt Multisolar flat plate

PV-hot water hybrid collector

Solaroll unglazed EPDM

plastic solar water heater

with amorphous silicon PV

cells laminated on the front.

A low-cost PV-hot water

Solar collector for pools

Crowder College 2002 Solar Decathlon solar home entry with a

PV-hot water hybrid with flat Al plates and amorphous Si PV cells

Arontis Solar - tracking, linear concentration

PVT hybrid collector made in Sweden

Helio Dynamics Harmony PV-T Hybrid

English

manufacturer

of solar water

heaters has

now added

PV cells to

make a true

hybrid

collector

Menova Engineering

Ontario Canada

Greenfield Solar 2 axis tracking

concentrator system

with 900 to 1 ratio

Close-up of PV cell

with cooling tubes

PV-still being

tested by Fenix

workers.

This device uses

evaporating sea

water to cool the

photovoltaic cells

Cross-section of the PV-still

Assembling the PV-still