Solar Resource Assessment and Forecasting

Overview

This new Task will address four basic objectives in improving our understanding of solar resources:

1. evaluation of solar resource variability that impacts large penetrations of solar technologies; 
2. standardization and integrating procedures for data bankability;
3. improving procedures for short-term solar resource forecasting, and
4. advanced solar resource modeling procedures based on physical principles.

Task Information

Duration July 2011 - June 2015. Operating Agent Dr. David Renné U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory david.renne@nrel.gov .

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