Evaluation of global horizontal irradiance to plane-of-array irradiance models at locations across the United States

IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 597-606

  Lave, Matthew ^a   Hayes, William ^b   Pohl, Andrew ^c   Hansen, Clifford W ^c  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b FIRST SOLAR   (United States)

^c SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Irradiance; photovoltaic (PV) systems; plane of array irradiance; solar energy; solar radiation

Indexed keywords

SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; SOLAR RADIATION; SUN;

DECOMPOSITION MODEL; DECOUPLED ANALYSIS; DIFFUSE HORIZONTAL IRRADIANCE; IRRADIANCE; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEMS; PLANE-OF-ARRAY IRRADIANCE;

CLIMATE MODELS;

EID: 85027924275     PISSN: 21563381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPHOTOV.2015.2392938     Document Type: Article

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