Bulgaria - degree day, solar and wind energy statistics

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

Bulgaria monthly solar energy plot, Bulgaria monthly wind energy plot, Bulgaria monthly heating degree day plot and Bulgaria monthly cooling degree day plot

Figure 3.1 Bulgaria average monthly percentage of solar and wind energy // heating degree and cooling degree days.

Bulgaria yearly solar energy plot, Bulgaria yearly wind energy plot, Bulgaria yearly heating degree days plot and Bulgaria yearly cooling degree days plot

Bulgaria yearly solar energy plot, Bulgaria yearly wind energy plot, Bulgaria yearly heating degree days plot and Bulgaria yearly cooling degree days plot

Figure 3.2 Bulgaria yearly solar energy, wind energy, heating degree day and cooling degree day plots.

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

Bulgaria average yearly temperature plot and monthly temperature plot

Bulgaria average yearly temperature plot and monthly temperature plot

Figure 3.4 Bulgaria average yearly and monthly temperature plots.

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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CM-SAF SARAH dataset.

doi: 10.5676/EUM_SAF_CM/SARAH/V001

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