Reducing carbon emissions and electricity costs in industry is a major challenge to ensure
competitiveness and compliance with new climate policies. Photovoltaic power offers a …

Energy demands, environmental impacts of energy conversion, and the depletion of fossil
fuels are constant topics of discussion in the energy industry. Renewable energy …

We present a simple algorithm for identifying periods of time with broadband global
horizontal irradiance (GHI) similar to that occurring during clear sky conditions from a time …

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 …

Accurately representing the local solar variability at timescales relevant to distribution grid
operations (30-s and shorter) is essential to modeling the impact of solar photovoltaics (PV) …

Distributed photovoltaic (PV) projects must go through an interconnection study process
before connecting to the distribution grid. These studies are intended to identify the likely …

Some potential adverse impacts of high photovoltaics (PV) penetration on the power grid are
an increasing number of tap operations, over-voltages, and large and frequent voltage …

Residential photovoltaic (PV) technology is expected to have mass global deployment. With
widespread PV in the electricity distribution grids, the variable nature of the solar resource …

With increasing use of photovoltaic (PV) power generation by utilities and their residential
customers, the need for accurate intra-hour and day-ahead solar irradiance forecasting has …

Characterizing short-term variability of generated solar power is important for the integration
of photovoltaic (PV) systems into the electrical grid. Using different kinds of high frequency …