Task 46
SHC Task 46

Solar Resource Assessment and Forecasting

Task Information

DURATION
June 2011June 2015
 

OPERATING AGENT
Dr. David S. Renné
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
+1/303/517 8290
drenne@mac.com

Overview

This Task will address four basic objectives in improving our understanding of solar resources:

  1. evaluation of solar resource variability that impacts large penetrations of solar technologies; 
  2. standardization and integrating procedures for data bankability;
  3. improving procedures for short-term solar resource forecasting, and
  4. advanced solar resource modeling procedures based on physical principles.