Luxembourg - 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 Luxembourg

Figure 1.1 Luxembourg average monthly percentage of solar and wind energy // heating degree and cooling degree days.

Figure 1.2 Luxembourg daily solar energy plot.

Figure 2.3 Luxembourg daily wind energy plot for 2016 wind fleet.

Figure 1.4 Luxembourg daily heating degree days plot.

Figure 1.5 Luxembourg daily cooling degree days plot.

Figure 1.6 Luxembourg daily wind energy plot for near term wind fleet.

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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