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India Direct Normal & Global Horizontal Irradiance Solar Resources

Dataset ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.7799/1887279· OSTI ID:1887279
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  1. National Renewable Energy Laboratory; National Renewable Energy Laboratory

GIS data for India's direct normal irradiance (DNI) and global horizontal irradiance. Provides 10-kilometer (km) solar resource maps and data for India. The 10-km hourly solar resource data were developed using weather satellite (METEOSAT) measurements incorporated into a site-time specific solar modeling approach developed at the U.S. State University of New York at Albany. The data is made publicly available in geographic information system (GIS) format (shape files etc). The new maps and data were released in June 2013. The new data expands the time period of analysis from 2002-2007 to 2002-2011 and incorporates enhanced aerosols information to improve direct normal irradiance (DNI). These products were developed by the U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in cooperation with India's Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, through funding from the U.S. Department of Energy and U.S. Department of State.

Research Organization:
National Renewable Energy Laboratory - Data (NREL-DATA), Golden, CO (United States); National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
OSTI ID:
1887279
Report Number(s):
GO28308
Availability:
datacatalog@nrel.gov
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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