Nauru College PV system photo gallery

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View of the south roof of Nauru College.

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The inverter room. There are a total of seven 5 kW inverters in this room (the seventh inverter is hidden behind the door to the left, off picture). The room is ventilated by a large window (off picture, to the left) and a ceiling vent. The PV module against the wall is a spare, used to show the students what the PV modules look like on the roof. The other spares are at the NUA office. The grey box at the bottom of the picture is used to store a PV demonstration kit, which shows students how PV systems work.

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The seventh inverter, with the data logger. The data are routinely analyzed by the NUA Energy Office to evaluate the performance of the system and to adjust inverter parameters if necessary.

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The south roof, as seen from the street. Unfortunately the north roof can only be seen from the ocean.

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The south roof PV array, with a capacity of 22.9 kWp.

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The north roof PV array, with a capacity of 17.3 kWp.

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The solar sensor on the north roof. Insolation between October 2008 (when the system was installed) and June 2009 was very high, due to a lack of clouds brought on by a drought. Nauru experiences droughts that follow the El Nino/La Nina oscillations.