Solar Energy Forecasting and Resource Assessment is a vital text for solar energy professionals, addressing a critical gap in the core literature of the field. As major barriers to solar energy implementation, such as materials cost and low conversion efficiency, continue to fall, issues of intermittency and reliability have come to the fore. Scrutiny from solar project developers and their financiers on the accuracy of long-term resource projections and grid operators' concerns about variable short-term power generation have made the field of solar forecasting and resource assessment pivotally important. This volume provides an authoritative voice on the topic, incorporating contributions from an internationally recognized group of top authors from both industry and academia, focused on providing information from underlying scientific fundamentals to practical applications and emphasizing the latest technological developments driving this discipline forward.
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Table of Contents
Preface
Biography
Chapter 1 Terms and Definitions
Chapter 2 Semi-Empirical Satellite Models
Chapter 3 Physically Based Satellite Methods
Chapter 4 Evaluation of Resource Risk in Solar-Project Financing
Chapter 5 Bankable Solar-Radiation Datasets
Chapter 6 Solar Resource Variability
Chapter 7 Quantifying and Simulating Solar-Plant Variability Using Irradiance Data
Chapter 8 Overview of Solar-Forecasting Methods and a Metric for Accuracy Evaluation
Chapter 9 Sky-Imaging Systems for Short-Term Forecasting
Chapter 10 Solar Anywhere Forecasting
Chapter 11 Satellite-Based Irradiance and Power Forecasting for the German Energy Market
Chapter 12 Forecasting Solar Irradiance with NumericalWeather Prediction Models
Chapter 13 Data Assimilation in Numerical Weather Prediction and Sample Applications
Chapter 14 Case Studies of Solar Forecasting with the Weather Research and Forecasting Model at GL-Garrad Hassan
Chapter 15 Stochastic-Learning Methods
Index
