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Title: NREL Solar Radiation Resource Assessment Project: Status and outlook. Annual progress report, FY 1992

Abstract

This annual report summaries the activities and accomplishments of the Solar Radiation Resource Assessment Project during fiscal year 1992 (1 October to 30 September 1992). Managed by the Analytic Studies Division of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, this project is the major activity of the US Department of Energy`s Resource Assessment Program.

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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
National Renewable Energy Lab., Golden, CO (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
OSTI Identifier:
10170946
Report Number(s):
NREL/TP-463-5428
ON: DE93010034
DOE Contract Number:
AC02-83CH10093
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: Jun 1993
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
14 SOLAR ENERGY; 58 GEOSCIENCES; SOLAR RADIATION; RESOURCE ASSESSMENT; PROGRESS REPORT; PROGRAM MANAGEMENT; RESEARCH PROGRAMS; AVAILABILITY; DIRECT SOLAR RADIATION; DIFFUSE SOLAR RADIATION; USA; INFORMATION; 140100; 580000; RESOURCES AND AVAILABILITY; GEOSCIENCES

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Renne, D., Maxwell, E., Stoffel, T., Marion, B., Rymes, M., Wilcox, S., Myers, D., Riordan, C., Hammond, E., and Ismailidis, T.. NREL Solar Radiation Resource Assessment Project: Status and outlook. Annual progress report, FY 1992. United States: N. p., 1993. Web. doi:10.2172/10170946.
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Renne, D., Maxwell, E., Stoffel, T., Marion, B., Rymes, M., Wilcox, S., Myers, D., Riordan, C., Hammond, E., & Ismailidis, T.. NREL Solar Radiation Resource Assessment Project: Status and outlook. Annual progress report, FY 1992. United States. doi:10.2172/10170946.
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Renne, D., Maxwell, E., Stoffel, T., Marion, B., Rymes, M., Wilcox, S., Myers, D., Riordan, C., Hammond, E., and Ismailidis, T.. Tue . "NREL Solar Radiation Resource Assessment Project: Status and outlook. Annual progress report, FY 1992". United States. doi:10.2172/10170946. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/10170946.
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title = {NREL Solar Radiation Resource Assessment Project: Status and outlook. Annual progress report, FY 1992},
author = {Renne, D. and Maxwell, E. and Stoffel, T. and Marion, B. and Rymes, M. and Wilcox, S. and Myers, D. and Riordan, C. and Hammond, E. and Ismailidis, T.},
abstractNote = {This annual report summaries the activities and accomplishments of the Solar Radiation Resource Assessment Project during fiscal year 1992 (1 October to 30 September 1992). Managed by the Analytic Studies Division of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, this project is the major activity of the US Department of Energy`s Resource Assessment Program.},
doi = {10.2172/10170946},
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place = {United States},
year = {Tue Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 1993},
month = {Tue Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 1993}
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