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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