Decomposing global solar radiation into its direct and diffuse components

John Boland, Jing Huang and Barbara Ridley

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2013, vol. 28, issue C, 749-756

Abstract: To assess the viability of proposed solar installations, knowledge of global solar radiation is not sufficient. For stationary photovoltaic plant, we require global radiation series, but also the contemporaneous diffuse radiation series. Alternatively, for concentrated solar thermal, we need global and direct normal solar radiation. In this paper, we investigate whether one can simply use a model for predicting diffuse radiation using multiple predictions derived by our research team, the Boland–Ridley–Lauret (BRL) model, to give delineations of both diffuse and direct or if we need to use another model for direct or develop a new direct normal statistical model.

Keywords: BRL model; Direct normal radiation; Diffuse radiation; Statistical modelling (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2013.08.023

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