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

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec0 %5 %10 %15 %20 %
solar 1216 kWh/y per kWpeakwind 2092 kWh/y per kWpeak2488 HDD/y313 CDD/yHungary - monthly percentage of solar, wind, heating and cooling degree daysSource: energy.at-site.be/ninja, non-commercial use permittedData source: renewables.ninja CC BY-NC 4.0, CM-SAF SARAH solar model2016 wind fleet, NASA MERRA-2 population weighted temperature; years 2005-2015
Figure 1.1 Hungary average monthly percentage of solar and wind energy // heating degree and cooling degree days.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec01234567 kWh/d
SARAH solar radiation, years 2005..2015 (3.3 kWh/d)p10averagep90Hungary - daily solar energy (KWh/d) per kWpeakSource: energy.at-site.be/forecast, non-commercial use permittedData source: renewables.ninja, doi: 10.1016/j.energy.2016.08.060
Figure 1.2 Hungary daily solar energy plot.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec05101520 kWh/d
2016 wind fleet, years 2005..2015 (5.7 kWh/d)p10averagep90Hungary: daily wind energy (KWh/d) per kWpeakSource: energy.at-site.be/forecast, non-commercial use permittedData source: renewables.ninja, doi: 10.1016/j.energy.2016.08.068
Figure 2.3 Hungary daily wind energy plot for 2016 wind fleet.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec051015202530 HDD/d
MERRA-2 population weighted temperature, years 2005..2015 (6.8 HDD)p10averagep90Hungary - daily heating degree days, 15.5 °C (HDD/d)Source: energy.at-site.be/forecast, non-commercial use permittedData source: renewables.ninja, MERRA-2 population weighted temperature model
Figure 1.4 Hungary daily heating degree days plot.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec0246810 CDD/d
MERRA-2 population weighted temperature, years 2005..2015 (0.9 CDD)p10averagep90Hungary - daily cooling degree days, 21 °C (CDD/d)Source: energy.at-site.be/forecast, non-commercial use permittedData source: renewables.ninja, MERRA-2 population weighted temperature model
Figure 1.5 Hungary 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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CM-SAF SARAH dataset.

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