This paper quantifies the residual errors in plane of array irradiance (POAI) at locations where ground-measured GHI and POAI instruments are installed. Reductions in error to the modeled PAOI are observed when using satellite derived GHI that has been tuned with ground measured GHI for reduction in respective model errors.
On the Ability of Ground Based Global Horizontal Irradiance Measurements to Reduce Error in Satellite Derived Plane of Array Irradiance data for Fixed Tilt Photovoltaic Power Plants
Hope Smith | Jun 27, 2016