Method and System for Accessing PV Resource Data from the NSRDB

Yu Xie; Manajit Sengupta

doi:10.18086/swc.2019.42.10

Method and System for Accessing PV Resource Data from the NSRDB

Yu Xie, Manajit Sengupta

Power Systems Engineering

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Abstract

This study developed a capability to provide spectrally resolved solar resource data from the National Solar Radiation Data Base (NSRDB), effectively providing 20 years of half-hourly data for all of the United States at a 4-km by 4-km spatial resolution. These data are now available freely to users directly through a geographic information system-based web interface (https://nsrdb.nrel.gov) as well as an application programming interface. Users of these data can conduct more accurate pre-feasibility studies and assess multiple photovoltaic (PV) technologies. It is expected that widely used models such as PVSyst, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory's (NREL's) System Advisor Model (SAM), and First Solar designed PlantPredict will develop the capabilities to use these spectral data.

Original language	American English
Pages	2017-2021
Number of pages	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.18086/swc.2019.42.10 https://doi.org/10.18086/swc.2019.42.10
State	Published - 2020
Event	ISES Solar World Congress 2019, SWC 2019 and IEA SHC International Conference on Solar Heating and Cooling for Buildings and Industry 2019, SHC 2019 - Santiago, Chile Duration: 4 Nov 2019 → 7 Nov 2019

Conference

Conference	ISES Solar World Congress 2019, SWC 2019 and IEA SHC International Conference on Solar Heating and Cooling for Buildings and Industry 2019, SHC 2019
Country/Territory	Chile
City	Santiago
Period	4/11/19 → 7/11/19

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See NREL/CP-5D00-74453 for preprint

NREL Publication Number

NREL/CP-5D00-77321

Keywords

cloud
photovoltaic
PV
radiative tranfer
resource
solar radiation

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Xie, Y., & Sengupta, M. (2020). Method and System for Accessing PV Resource Data from the NSRDB. 2017-2021. Paper presented at ISES Solar World Congress 2019, SWC 2019 and IEA SHC International Conference on Solar Heating and Cooling for Buildings and Industry 2019, SHC 2019, Santiago, Chile. https://doi.org/10.18086/swc.2019.42.10, https://doi.org/10.18086/swc.2019.42.10

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