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Operating agent: Jan REMUND
Head of Energy & Climate, Meteotest, Switzerland
Prof. Philippe BLANC
Yves-Marie SAINT-DRENAN
MINES ParisTech
Center Observation, Impacts, Energy
IEA PVPS Task 16
Solar resource for high penetration and large
scale applications
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Background of PVPS Task 16
• International Energy Agency (IEA)
Technology Collaboration Programmes (TCP)
used as backing organization
• Formalised way of international collaboration
• Participants are confirmed by states
• Three solar programmes involved:
• Solar Heating and Cooling (SHC)
• SolarPACES (solar chemistry and
concentrating solar power)
• PV power systems (PVPS)
• Duration: 2017-2020 (extented to 2023)
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IEA SHC Task 36/46
• 2005 – 2016, lead by Dave Renne (NREL, ISES)
• Best Practices Handbook for the Collection and Use of Solar Resource Data
for Solar Energy Applications (2015)
http://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy15osti/63112.pdf
• New version 2018
Best Practices Handbook for the Collection and Use of Solar Resource Data
for Solar Energy Applications: Second Edition
https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy18osti/68886.pdf
• Benchmarks:
– Satellite based solar resource assessment
– Solar forecasts
• Modelling:
– Definition of circumsolar radiation and DNI
– Integration of ground measurements with model derived data
– Spatio-temporal variability of solar resource with respect time and space aggregation
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Objectives for the Task 16 of PVPSBig PV and high penetration need high quality of meteorological
information
• Finer spatial and temporal resolution of data
• Uncertainty in solar belt still high
• Resource uncertainty is biggest part of financial uncertainty
• Main objective:
Lower solar resource uncertainties to lower costs of
implementation
• Added values
• Independent benchmarks
Never trust non independent validations
• Scientific exchange
Faster and more detailed as on conferences
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Network 14 IEA PVPS members
2 IEA SHC members
7 IEA SolarPACES m.
Global horizontal irradiance. Source: www.meteonorm.com Verion 7.2
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institutions
Science
(labs and
universities)
Met Services
Utilities
Data providers
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Subtask 1: Resources
Manajit Sengupta, NREL
Stefan Wilbert, DLR (temp)
• Evaluation of current and
emerging resource
assessment methodologies:
– Ground based methods
(instruments, soiling)
– Numerical weather models
(NWP)
– Satellite-based methods
(uncertainties, modelling)
– Benchmarking framework
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Subtask 2: Bankability
Philippe Blanc, MINES ParisTech
• Enhanced data & bankable
products:
– Data quality & format
– Merging of satellite, NWP and
ground data
– Spatio-temporal high variability
– Long-term inter-annual
variability
– Products for the end-users
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ICEM 2019: Workshop on best
practices for automatic and expert
based data quality control methods and
for gap filling methods
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Benchmark on short-to-long
term adaptation
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Subtask 3: Forecasting
Alessandro Betti, I-EM
• Evaluation of current and
emerging solar
forecasting techniques:
– Value of solar power
forecasts
– Regional solar power
forecasting
– Variability forecasting and
probabilistic forecasting
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Workshop about probabilistic
forecasts
Organized by N. Schmutz (Reuniwatt)
Workshop at EUPVSEC 2019 (Marseille, FRA)
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Sky imager benchmark • Date & location: August-October 2019, PSA Almeria (DLR)
• Organizer: DLR, DEU and Univ. Patras, GRE
• Participants: DLR, FH Oberösterreich, Reuniwatt, Univ. Utrecht,
CSEM/MT, EPFL (external)
• Validation: Univ. Patras (independent)
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Subtask 4: Dissemination
Dave Renné, USA
• Dissemination and Outreach:
– Task Brochure & Newsletters
– Conference and Journal papers
– Webinars and/or conference
presentations
connection to ISES
– Workshops (at major
conferences)
– Reports
July 2017- June 2020 Update of the solar
resource handbook
(NREL)
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Extensions of activities
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Thank you for your attention!
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