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Author Sengupta, Manajit.

Title Measurement and modeling of solar and PV output variability [electronic resource] : preprint / M. Sengupta.

Imprint [Golden, CO] : National Renewable Energy Laboratory, [2011]

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 Axe Federal Documents Online  E 9.17:NREL/CP-5500-51105    ---  Available
Description 1 online resource (5 p.) : col. ill.
Series NREL/CP ; 5500-51105
Conference paper (National Renewable Energy Laboratory (U.S.)) ; 5500-51105.
System Details Full text available via Internet in .pdf format. Adobe Acrobat Reader required.
Note Title from title screen (viewed April 25, 2011).
"April 2011."
"To be presented at SOLAR 2011, Raleigh, North Carolina, May 17-21, 2011."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 5).
Summary This paper seeks to understand what temporal and spatial scales of variability in global horizontal radiation are important to a PV plants and what measurements are needed to be able to characterize them. As solar radiation measuring instruments are point receivers it is important to understand how those measurements translate to energy received over a larger spatial extent. Also of importance is the temporal natural of variability over large spatial areas. In this research we use high temporal and spatial resolution measurements from multiple sensors at a site in Hawaii to create solar radiation fields at various spatial and temporal scales. Five interpolation schemes were considered and the high resolution solar fields were converted to power production for a PV power plant. It was found that the interpolation schemes are robust and create ramp distributions close to what would be computed if the average solar radiation field was used. We also investigated the possibility of using time averaged solar data from 1 sensor to recreate the ramp distribution from the 17 sensors. It was found that the ramping distribution from using appropriately time averaged data from 1 sensor can reasonably match the distribution created using the 17 sensor network.
Funding DE-AC36-08GO28308
Subject Solar radiation -- Measurement.
Photovoltaic power generation -- Research.
Solar energy -- Mathematical models.
Added Author National Renewable Energy Laboratory (U.S.)
Gpo Item No. 0430-P-04 (online)
Sudoc No. E 9.17:NREL/CP-5500-51105

 
    
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