access icon openaccess Developing a spatially and temporally explicit solar resource dataset for Great Britain

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Received 26/10/2018, Accepted 05/12/2018, Published 15/03/2019

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 for use in these models, for domestic, commercial roof-mounted and ground-mounted arrays. They include the whole of Great Britain (GB) and are based on empirical weather data for 2000–2015. They are expected to be a valuable resource for energy system modelling in GB.

Inspec keywords: sunlight; building integrated photovoltaics; geophysics computing; solar cell arrays; investment; solar power; photovoltaic power systems

Other keywords: solar photovoltaic resource; temporally explicit solar resource dataset; infrastructure investment tools; Scottish energy system; Great Britain; dispatch; valuable resource; spatially resource dataset

Subjects: Geophysics computing; Power system management, operation and economics; Solar power stations and photovoltaic power systems; Solar cells and arrays

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