Photovoltaic (PV) Solar Energy Output Variability Methodologies

These papers present methodologies for cost-effectively predicting the solar power output variability of high-penetration PV fleets.

Photovoltaic (PV) Solar Energy Output Variability Methodologies

These papers present methodologies for cost-effectively predicting the solar power output variability of high-penetration PV fleets.
Spatial and Temporal Variability of Solar Energy

This paper summarizes and analyzes recent research by the authors and others to understand, characterize, and model...

CSI RD&D Solicitation 1 Final Webinar: Advanced Modeling and Verification for High Penetration PV

In April 2010, Clean Power Research received a California Solar Initiative (CSI) Research, Development, Demonstration...

Determining Storage Reserves for Regulating Solar Variability

This paper describes the initial validation of a method of quantifying PV variability by using satellite-derived solar...

Modeling PV Fleet Output Variability

This paper introduces a novel approach to estimating the maximum short‐term output variability that an arbitrary fleet...

Short-term Irradiance Variability: Station Pair Correlation as a Function of Distance

This article focuses on station pairs, and investigates the correlation of their short-term variability as a function...

PV Power Output Variability: Calculation of Correlation Coefficients Using Satellite Insolation Data

This paper describes analytical methods and tools to quantify PV fleet output variability that can be used by utility...

Parameterization of Site-specific Short-term Irradiance Variability

This article presents a set of empirical models capable of extracting metrics quantifying the short‐term variability...

PV Power Output Variability: Correlation Coefficients

This paper introduces a novel approach to estimate the maximum short‐term output variability that a fleet of PV...

Evaluating PV Fleet Output Variability

This presentation describes methods for evaluating the power output variability of PV fleets, and how that information...

Quantifying PV Power Output Variability

This paper presents a new approach to rigorously quantify power output variability from a fleet of PV systems, ranging...

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