Fluctuations of the incoming solar irradiance impact the power generation from photovoltaic
and concentrating solar thermal power plants. Accurate solar nowcasting becomes …

Because of the cloud‐induced variability of the solar resource, the growing contributions of
photovoltaic plants to the overall power generation challenges the stability of electricity …

Photovoltaic arrays may suffer from a number of temporary and permanent faults. Partial
shading and soiling belong to the former group, while cell cracking and delamination fall …

Solar irradiance nowcasts can be derived with sky images from all sky imagers (ASI) by
detecting and analyzing transient clouds, which are the main contributor of intra-hour solar …

Ground-mounted PV plants with multiple parallel mounting structure rows became the most
common type of PV systems, where the shading of the adjacent rows results in significant …

Due to modeling errors and disturbances caused by clouds, Solar Power Tower (SPT) plants
consider high safety margins during operation leading to a significant loss of revenues. This …

In solar tower power plants, aim point optimization is suitable to find aim point distributions
resulting in intercept powers close to the theoretical maximum. However, the application in …

Many aim point optimization techniques exist to control Solar Power Towers (SPTs).
However, SPTs exhibit optical losses that cannot be exactly modeled. Moreover, cloud …

Cloud height information is crucial for various applications. This includes solar nowcasting
systems. Multiple methods to obtain the altitudes of clouds are available. In this paper, cloud …

Small-scale PV generation is particularly affected by the irradiance variability produced by
cloud shadows. Accurate predictions of the clouds passing over the PV field are thus …