Sustainable integration of photovoltaic systems in different climatic conditions—A financial and environmental assessment
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
The current paper investigates a 6 MW grid-connected photovoltaic system model in two different countries: Canada and Egypt. The analysis was conducted in the frame of a sustainable development feasibility assessment. The two countries were chosen as they have significantly different irradiation levels. Two cities within each country were considered for comparison. The proposed system is simulated under realistic conditions in RETScreen. The weather conditions were imported from the NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) website. The project viability has been assessed using different financial indicators. Amongst them is the payback. Payback of projects located in Egypt is considerably lower than in Canada. The payback in Kharga Oasis in Egypt is 7.3 years. It yields a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions of 62.7 tons of CO2. The payback in a low-irradiation city like Victoria in Canada is 13.3 years. The project installed in Victoria mitigates greenhouse gas emissions by 53.2 tons of CO2. The study also shows the detrimental effect of increasing the initial cost and debt term on the project’s financial viability. The outcome of the study concludes that PV projects are very promising in moderate weather like Egypt. It can be viable in northern countries like Canada but under certain conditions of operation and financing.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it