Hot Spot Monitoring in Solar Arrays for Enhanced Performance with ML Predictions: A Case Study

The solar energy plays a key role in our daily lives, offering various benefits including environmental, economic, and practical advantages. The role of solar energy in our daily lives continues to expand as technology improvement in technology, decrease in cost and the need for sustainable energy sources are increased more. But we also have more problems in solar as Hot spot and many more. The ‘Hot Spot’ problem of solar photovoltaic (PV) panels refers to the condition where the power performance system on the solar panel becomes extremely hot compared to the rest of the solar panel. When this happens just one zone of the solar panel reaches a very high temperature. This phenomenon can negatively impact the performance of the solar panel as the high temperatures in the affected area lower the output power. If it is not addressed, material degradation can lead to damage to the panel. Manual detection of hotspots is only possible after the negative effects become too big to ignore or when the glass turns brown due to excess heat