Development and Performance Evaluation of Solar Pvt Technology with Plane Mirror

Photovoltaic Thermal (PVT) combines the solar thermal and photovoltaic systems. This technique benefits from both light and heat of the solar radiation to produce electricity and hot fluids. Research in PVT systems is rapidly growing with more methods and techniques to increase the overall efficiency, reduce the cost, improve the modeling, and maintain the system for long periods of time and employing them for suitable application. The thesis aims to study some of the research conducted in this field in order to understand and derive key points to producing more research and providing constructive criticism for the work presented. In the current project experimental investigation is carried out to improve the output power of solar cell using cooling and light reflection from mirrors. The results show that by adding mirror, the current and output power of solar cell increase but the open circuit voltage and maximum power voltage decrease due to heat. By adding cooling, the open circuit voltage and the maximum power voltage are improved, so the output power also increases.