Method and System for Accessing PV Resource Data from the NSRDB: Preprint

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Abstract

This study developed a capability to provide spectrally resolved solar resource data from the National Solar Radiation Database (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 through an application programming interface. Users of these data can conduct more accurate prefeasibility studies and assess multiple photovoltaic (PV) technologies. It is expected that widely used models such as PVSyst, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory's System Advisor Model (SAM), and First Solar-designed PlantPredict will develop the capabilities to use these spectral data.
Original languageAmerican English
Number of pages8
StatePublished - 2019
Event2019 International Solar Energy Society (ISES) Solar World Congress - Santiago, Chile
Duration: 4 Nov 20197 Nov 2019

Conference

Conference2019 International Solar Energy Society (ISES) Solar World Congress
CitySantiago, Chile
Period4/11/197/11/19

Bibliographical note

See NREL/CP-5D00-77321 for paper as published in proceedings

NREL Publication Number

  • NREL/CP-5D00-74453

Keywords

  • cloud
  • photovoltaic
  • PV
  • radiative transfer
  • resource
  • solar radiation

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