Bifacial PV modules use radiation received by both the front and back surfaces, but only irradiance models for the front surface are fully developed and validated.• This work developed a backside irradiance model and compared model estimates with backside irradiance measurements using reference cells installed on the backside of PV systems at NREL and Sandia.
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