Building a bankable solar radiation dataset

Solar Energy

Volumn 86, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 2218-2229

  Vignola, Frank ^a,b   Grover, Cathy ^b   Lemon, Nick ^b   McMahan, Andrew ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b Luminant LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

Financing; Generation; Probability; Resource assessment; Solar radiation; TMY

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; ELECTRIC ENERGIES; FINANCING; FUTURE PERFORMANCE; GENERATION; POWER PROJECTS; RATING AGENCIES; RESOURCE ASSESSMENTS; SATELLITE IMAGES; SOLAR DATA; SOLAR PROJECT; SOLAR RESOURCES; TMY;

FINANCE; PROBABILITY; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR RADIATION;

SUN;

DATA SET; DATABASE; ELECTRICAL PROPERTY; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOLAR POWER; SOLAR RADIATION;

EID: 84864119836     PISSN: 0038092X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solener.2012.05.013     Document Type: Review

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