Bottom-up energy system models are often based on hourly time steps due to limited
computational tractability or data availability. However, in order to properly assess the …

The successful deployment of solar-power-towers lies in the reliable design of solar
receivers, assuring the lifetime under high heat flux and cloud passages. Two main damage …

Wind environment monitoring at the bridge site is essential in structural health monitoring
(SHM). However, as the performance of the electronic equipment for bridge SHM system …

High resolution synthetic irradiance is of interest for theoretical studies such as grid
integration of solar PV and battery storage analysis. Access to site-specific data is often …

Abstract The National Solar Radiation Database (NSRDB) provides more than 20 years of
solar resource information covering North and South America at a 30-min, 4-km by 4-km …

Solar power is increasingly cost viable with solar photovoltaic (PV) installations becoming
commonplace. PV planning and operational studies, however, require high-frequency solar …

To properly design systems that harness the solar resource, reliable measurements or
estimates of its availability are needed. Often, this data is only available at temporal …

In this paper, we present a method for the synthetic generation of long-term time series of
coupled 1-min global horizontal solar irradiance (GHI) and direct normal solar irradiance …

A review of quality control for large irradiance datasets is applied as a case study for the
Southern African Universities Radiometric Network (SAURAN) database. The quality control …

The increasing penetration of renewable energies brings into sharp relief the potential of
thermal storages, particularly in multi-energy networks. Indeed, they offer low storage cost …