Austria - degree day, solar and wind energy statistics

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Daily degree day, solar energy and wind energy statistics and solar power statistics for Austria

Figure 2.1 Austria daily solar energy plot.

Figure 2.2 Austria daily wind energy plot.

Figure 2.3 Austria daily heating degree days plot.

Figure 2.4 Austria daily cooling degree days plot.

Acknowledgement: many thanks to the Renewables.ninja team for open access to the v1.1 data-set of Europe, covering 1980-2016 data for weather, solar and wind on a country basis. Website: www.renewables.ninja. Version 1.1 of the original data-set is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0. In this work, hourly data is post-processing into yearly, monthly and daily statistics - and visualized using boxplots.

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