The UK solar energy resource and the impact of climate change

Renewable Energy

Volumn 71, Issue , 2014, Pages 333-343

  Burnett, Dougal ^a   Barbour, Edward ^a   Harrison, Gareth P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate change; Probabilistic projections; Solar irradiation; Solar PV; Solar resource; Solar thermal; Suehrcke; Sunshine duration; UK; UKCP09

Indexed keywords

ENERGY RESOURCES; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR RADIATION;

PROBABILISTIC PROJECTIONS; SOLAR IRRADIATION; SOLAR PVS; SOLAR RESOURCES; SOLAR THERMAL; SUEHRCKE; SUNSHINE DURATION; UK; UKCP09;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA SET; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; GEOGRAPHICAL REGION; MEASUREMENT METHOD; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM; SOLAR POWER; STATE ROLE;

ENGLAND; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84902305085     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2014.05.034     Document Type: Article

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