Developing a spatially and temporally explicit solar resource dataset for Great Britain
The Journal of Engineering, 2019 Existing dispatch and infrastructure investment tools for modelling the Scottish energy system do not currently include solar photovoltaic resource. This study describes the development of three spatially and temporally explicit solar resource datasets ...
R. Camilla Thomson +3 more
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Resource Allocation in Solar-Powered FiWi Networks
IEEE Access, 2020 The ever increasing demand for higher data rates and more flexible deployment has accelerated the need for integrating optical fiber with wireless networks.
Akshita Gupta +2 more
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Seasonal Change on Land and Water [PDF]
, 2003 The purpose of this resource is to further students' understanding of the causes of seasonal change using visualizations to compare the effects of incoming solar energy in the two hemispheres.
The GLOBE Program, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR)
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Assessing solar resource and photovoltaic production in Tahiti from ground-based measurements [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2019 This study focuses on the solar resource available at Faaa, Tahiti (17.5°S, 149.5°W) thanks to 10 year-long solar irradiance time series. Faaa’s global horizontal irradiance ranges from 14 MJ.m-2.day-1 (June) to 21 MJ.m-2.day-1 (November) in agreement ...
Hopuare Marania +4 more
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Land Use Planning for Solar Energy: Resource Guide [PDF]
, 2015 This document was created to help New York State localities develop and adopt solar friendly policies and plans. It begins by presenting the local government’s role in land use planning and regulation and introduces common characteristics of “solar ...
Bacher, Jessica A. +2 more
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Enabling Future Sustainability Transitions: An Urban Metabolism Approach to Los Angeles Pincetl et al. Enabling Future Sustainability Transitions [PDF]
, 2014 Summary: This synthesis article presents an overview of an urban metabolism (UM) approach using mixed methods and multiple sources of data for Los Angeles, California.
Chester, M +7 more
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Multidimensional Optimal Droop Control for DC Microgrids in Military Applications
Applied Sciences, 2018 Reliability is a key consideration when microgrid technology is implemented in military applications. Droop control provides a simple option without requiring communication between microgrid components, increasing the control system reliability. However,
Kaitlyn J. Bunker +3 more
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Harvesting Near Earth Asteroid Resources Using Solar Sail Technology [PDF]
, 2017 Near Earth asteroids represent a wealth of material resources to support future space ventures. These resources include water from C-type asteroids for crew logistic support; liquid propellants electrolytically cracked from water to fuel crewed vehicles ...
McInnes, Colin
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Outlier detection in ground-measured solar resource data using statistical classification models
Journal of Energy in Southern AfricaGround-based solar resource measurements are known to be preferred to synthetic or simulated data for a given location, but outliers present in this data can significantly impact the accuracy of predictions used in viability assessments.
Chantelle Clohessy +2 more
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Solmap: Project In India's Solar Resource Assessment
International Journal of Renewable Energy Development, 2014 India launched Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission in 2009, which aims to set up 20 000 MW of grid connected solar power, besides 2 000 MW equivalent of off-grid applications and cumulative growth of solar thermal collector area to 20 million m2 by ...
Indradip Mitra +6 more
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