Quantifying the Use of Site-Specific Measurements in Place of a Typical Meteorological Year Data Set for Solar Energy Modeling

摘要

Understanding the local climate is an important factor to assess the energy production potential of a solar project. In most solar resource and energy production assessments, a long-term annualized hourly time series of solar insolation and relevant meteorological parameters - a Typical Meteorological Year (TMY) data set - is used as an input to industry-standard energy simulation programs.