Towards intra-hour solar forecasting using two sky imagers at a large solar power plant

World Renewable Energy Forum, WREF 2012, Including World Renewable Energy Congress XII and Colorado Renewable Energy Society (CRES) Annual Conferen

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages 1068-1073

  Urquhart, Bryan ^a   Chow, Chi Wai ^a   Nguyen, Andu ^a   Kleissl, Jan ^a   Sengupta, Manajit ^b   Blatchford, Jim ^c   Jeon, David ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^c California Independent System Operator (CAISO)   (United States)

^d Sempra LNG   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUD MAP; CLOUDY CONDITIONS; CONSECUTIVE IMAGES; GLOBAL IRRADIANCE; IMAGE PROCESSING TECHNIQUE; OPTICAL DEPTH; PHOTOVOLTAIC; PLANT OUTPUT; POWER OUT PUT; POWER PRODUCTION; SHORT-TERM FORECASTING; WEATHER STATIONS;

IMAGE PROCESSING; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SOLAR POWER PLANTS; THERMOELECTRIC POWER;

FORECASTING;

EID: 84871596415     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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