Generation of daily solar irradiation by means of artificial neural net works

Adalberto N. Siqueira, Chigueru Tiba and Naum Fraidenraich

Renewable Energy, 2010, vol. 35, issue 11, 2406-2414

Abstract: The present study proposes the utilization of Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) as an alternative for generating synthetic series of daily solar irradiation. The sequences were generated from the use of daily temporal series of a group of meteorological variables that were measured simultaneously. The data used were measured between the years of 1998 and 2006 in two temperate climate localities of Brazil, Ilha Solteira (São Paulo) and Pelotas (Rio Grande do Sul). The estimates were taken for the months of January, April, July and October, through two models which are distinguished regarding the use or nonuse of measured bright sunshine hours as an input variable. An evaluation of the performance of the 56 months of solar irradiation generated by way of ANN showed that by using the measured bright sunshine hours as an input variable (model 1), the RMSE obtained were less or equal to 23.2% being that of those, although 43 of those months presented RMSE less or equal to 12.3%. In the case of the model that did not use the measured bright sunshine hours but used a daylight length (model 2), RMSE were obtained that varied from 8.5% to 37.5%, although 38 of those months presented RMSE less or equal to 20.0%.

Keywords: Artificial neural networks; Daily solar irradiation; Synthetic temporal series; Simulation of solar systems; Bright sunshine hours; Accumulated distribution of daily solar irradiation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2010.03.019

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