Concentrated solar power plants (CSPs) are gaining increasing interest, mostly as parabolic
trough collectors (PTC) or solar tower collectors (STC). Notwithstanding CSP benefits, the …

Artificial intelligence (AI) techniques are becoming useful as alternate approaches to
conventional techniques or as components of integrated systems. They have been used to …

This paper develops a stochastic procedure for generating synthetic sets of hourly solar
irradiation values, suitable for use in solar simulation design work. The daily atmospheric …

The current carbon-based energy system is undergoing a profound change driven by the
increased concerns over the longevity and security of energy supply, as well as energy …

The application of renewable energy in electric power systems is growing rapidly due to
enhanced public concerns for adverse environmental impacts and escalation in energy …

A model is described which generates synthetic daily sequences of hourly radiation values,
on the horizontal plane, for any location, with the daily clearness index K t as input. The …

This article describes how sequences of daily global radiation can be generated for any
location, using as input only the average monthly radiation for that location (or the average …

Synthetic minutely irradiance time series are utilised in non-spatial solar energy system
research simulations. It is necessary that they accurately capture irradiance fluctuations and …

The reliability of stand alone photovoltaic systems is analyzed in terms of the loss of load
probability, LLP. A variety of numerical and analytic models for calculating the LLP are …

The purpose of this work is to develop a hybrid model which will be used to predict the daily
global solar radiation data by combining between an artificial neural network (ANN) and a …