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

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

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

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

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

Ireland yearly onshore and offshore wind energy plot
Figure 3.5 Ireland 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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