Solar PV Active and Passive Cooling Technologies - A Review

This paper emphasizes the current advances in cooling techniques and temperature control of Photovoltaic (PV) panel. The Electrical Efficiency of PV panel can be improved by decreasing the panel temperature using various techniques. Several cooling techniques are employed to solar PV and how this cooling technologies have their impact on solar PV are discussed. This paper gives the comparison of different cooling techniques (dynamic and static) and also gives the suggestion that which type of cooling can be adopted to the solar PV by considering various aspects.