Improving satellite derived solar irradiance using site adaptation techniques

Abstract

One of the most important issues to ensure the stability for solar power systems is the knowledge of solar radiation. This paper focuses in Gridded Satellite data suitability for modelling Global Horizontal Irradiation in islands with complicated orography. Moreover, this analysis presents the results of including a site-adaptation methodology for improving satellite suitability. We used different procedures to perform this site adaptation depending on the solar radiation conditions, the location and the season.