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Monthly weather, degree day, solar energy and wind energy statistics and solar power statistics for Belgium

Belgium monthly solar energy plot, Belgium monthly wind energy plot, Belgium monthly heating degree day plot and Belgium monthly cooling degree day plot
Figure 3.1 Belgium average monthly percentage of solar and wind energy // heating degree and cooling degree days.

Belgium yearly solar energy plot, Belgium yearly wind energy plot, Belgium yearly heating degree days plot and Belgium yearly cooling degree days plot
Figure 3.2 Belgium yearly solar energy, wind energy, heating degree day and cooling degree day plots.

Belgium monthly solar energy plot, Belgium monthly wind energy plot, Belgium monthly heating degree day plot and Belgium monthly cooling degree day plot
Figure 3.3 Belgium monthly solar energy, wind energy, heating day and cooling degree day plots.

Belgium average yearly temperature plot and monthly temperature plot
Figure 3.4 Belgium average yearly and monthly temperature plots.

Belgium yearly onshore and offshore wind energy plot
Figure 3.5 Belgium yearly onshore wind energy and offshore wind energy plot; as deployed in 2016.

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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