Review of photovoltaic power forecasting

http://coimbra.ucsd.edu/publications/papers/2013_Inman_Pedro_Coimbra.pdf

Solar forecasting methods for renewable energy integration

The recent statements of both the European Union and the US Presidency pushed in the direction of using renewable forms of energy, in order to act against climate changes induced by the growing concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. In this paper, a survey regarding methods and tools presently available to determine potential and exploitable energy in the most important renewable sectors (i.e., solar, wind, wave, biomass and geothermal energy) is presented. Moreover, challenges for each renewable resource are highlighted as well as the available tools that can help in evaluating the use of a mix of different sources.

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Methods and tools to evaluate the availability of renewable energy sources

REST2: High-performance solar radiation model for cloudless-sky irradiance, illuminance, and photosynthetically active radiation – Validation with a benchmark dataset

https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00537178/document

Forecasting of preprocessed daily solar radiation time series using neural networks

https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:17187/ATTACHMENT01

Rethinking satellite-based solar irradiance modelling: The SOLIS clear-sky module

A successful integration of solar energy into the existing energy structure highly depends on a detailed knowledge of the solar resource. The recently started European project HELIOSAT-3 will supply high-quality solar radiation data and taking advantage of the enhanced capabilities of the new Meteosat Second Generation (MSG) satellites. The expected quality represents a substantial improvement with respect to the available methods and will better match the needs of the solar energy community. These goals will be achieved by an improvement of the current semi-empirical Heliosat calculation schemes (see section 2) as well as by the development and establishment of a new type of calculation scheme. This new type will be based on radiative transfer models (RTM) using the information of atmospheric parameters retrieved from the MSG satellite (clouds, ozone, water vapor) and the GOME/ATSR-2 satellites (aerosols). Within this paper, the new type of the solar irradiance calculation scheme, including the functional treatment of the diurnal variation of the solar irradiance, is described.

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The use of MSG data within a new type of solar irradiance calculation scheme

A successful integration of solar energy into the existing energy structure highly depends on a detailed knowledge of the solar resource. HELIOSAT-3 will supply high-quality solar radiation data gained from the exploitation of existing Earth observation technologies and will take advantage of the enhanced capabilities of the new Meteosat Second Generation (MSG) satellites. The expected quality represents a substantial improvement with respect to the available methods and will better match the needs of companies and other customers of the resulting products. These goals will be achieved by an improvement of the current semi-empirical Heliosat calculation schemes (see section 2) as well as by the development and establishment of a new type of calculation scheme. This new type will be based on radiative transfer models (RTM) using the information of atmospheric parameters retrieved from the MSG satellite (clouds, ozone, water vapor) and the GOME/ATSR-2 satellites (aerosols). Within this paper, the new type of the solar irradiance calculation scheme, including the functional treatment of the diurnal variation of the solar irradiance, is described.

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G. Piernavieja

Papers

Rethinking satellite-based solar irradiance modelling: The SOLIS clear-sky module

The use of MSG data within a new type of solar irradiance calculation scheme

A new generation of satellite based solar irradiance calculation schemes

The use of Meteosat Second Generation satellite data within a new type of solar irradiance calculation scheme