Solar Resource Variability
Richard Perez, Atmospheric Sciences Research Center, University at Albany
Thomas E. Hoff, Clean Power Research
Chapter Outline
6.2. Quantifying Solar-Resource Variability
6.3. The Dispersion-Smoothing Effect
6.4. The General Case of an Arbitrarily Dispersed Fleet of Solar Generators
6.5. Variability Impact on the Distribution and Transmission System
6.1 Introduction
In this chapter, we focus on the short-term temporal variability of the solar resource caused by weather and passing clouds, corresponding to timescales of seconds to tens of minutes. This type of variability is illustrated in Figure 6.1.
FIGURE 6.1 Global irradiance ...
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