Photovoltaic Systems Engineering, Third Edition (Early Modern Americas) 3rd Edition

There is not much information on the internet about this book, so I am going to summarize it's contents as succinctly as possible. I ordered this book a couple of weeks ago and it is not EXACTLY what I was expecting, but it's still good.First off, it is written for professional engineers and/or graduate students. It assumes you already know/remember a lot of trigonometry and the basics of electricity and physics. If you're looking for an introduction or how-to manual for installing PV, this is NOT it. As stated in the description, this book goes into great depth of the WHY and HOW everything works, down to the chemistry of how a battery charges/discharges. It is very thorough. Also, nothing is dumbed down. They do not try to make it easy to read. Which is not a bad thing in my mind, just letting everyone know.I don't have an engineering background, but I'm still working through it, with LOTS of help from the web. When I'm done, I'll definitely have a good understanding of everything (if I make it) covered in the book.Lastly, you can't preview the book or see the table of contents, so I thought I'd quickly add them here at the bottom, just so people know what is covered.Ch 1 - BackgroundCh 2 - The SunCh 3 - Introduction to PV SystemsCh 4 - Grid-Connected Utility-Interactive PV SystemsCh 5 - Mechanical ConsiderationsCh 6 - Battery-Backup Grid-Connected PV SystemsCh 7 - Stand-Alone PV SystemsCh 8 - Economic ConsiderationsCh 9 -Externalities and PhotovoltaicsCh 10 - The Physics of PV CellsCh 11 - Present and Proposed PV Cells and Systems

Very informative book about PV systems, design and thoughts behind it. Its not a DIY on how to mount solar panels, but more of an engineering informative book, with alot of background information and details / aspects to consider regarding PV systems.

The book is good but the CD that came with it is missing.

must have for people studying about photovoltaics. This book has helped me with two reports and one course until now.

A really inferior text book. The author simply add up the knowledge and project report he has to make up a book. For an electrical engineer, most of the materials are unnecessary. For a layman, the content is verbose and elusive. This is the textbook for my class and I don't even bother to buy one.

This is a great intro book for those wanting a well rounded overview of Photovoltaic Systems design and installation. Practicing engineers of all disciplines will find the material contained in this text useful and current.

Excellent book but why use inches and not use the metric system is better and is the world science metric system as an engineering book should be written in a metric system. Americans will never learn metric if authors don t start writting with it.

A very useful book to become familiar with the PV, battery, and micro-grid

It is a reference book for all who has involved solar business. Worked examples make it very easy to design different type of solar systems from draft. As a european reader i had to use my unit converter so frequently but still i liked it very much