Recent Improvements in the National Solar Radiation Database (NSRDB)

Conference · Thu Dec 15 04:00:00 EST 2022

OSTI ID:1906326

Sengupta, Manajit; Habte, Aron; Xie, Yu; Buster, Grant; Bannister, Mike; Rossol, Michael; Edwards, Paul; Maclaurin, Galen; Rosenlieb, Evan; Yang, Jaemo; Sky, Haiku; Roberts, Billy

The National Solar Radiation Database (NSRDB) has significantly evolved since the first release of the point source database in 1993. The NSRDB has been widely used by the solar energy industry to provide long-term time-series solar resource data for various project phases. The NSRDB represents the state of the art in the satellite-based estimation of solar resource information and uses a unique physics-based modeling approach that allows improvements in accuracy with the deployment of the next-generation geostationary satellites. This poster provides an overview of (1) the improved spatiotemporal resolution; (2) on-demand services and their applications; (3) future Improvements, such as a new direct normal irradiance model and new methods to gap-fill missing data using physics-guided machine learning; (4) data quality; and (5) data dissemination.

• Research Organization: National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Solar Energy Technologies Office (EE-4S)
• DOE Contract Number: AC36-08GO28308
• OSTI ID: 1906326
• Report Number(s): NREL/PO-5D00-83375; MainId:84148; UUID:0f10f365-d312-484a-8eb4-e641e7314bbc; MainAdminID:68300
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING
SOLAR ENERGY
NSRDB
National Solar Radiation Database
PSM
Physical Solar Model
solar radiation
solar resource data
spatiotemporal resolution