Brussels - degree day and solar PV statistics

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Daily degree day, solar energy and wind energy statistics and solar power statistics for Brussels

Figure 1.1 Brussels daily solar energy plot.

Figure 1.2 Brussels daily heating degree days plot.

Figure 1.3 Brussels daily cooling degree days plot.

Acknowledgement: many thanks to the PVGIS team for open access to PVGIS 5.1 data from 2005 to 2015. Source - "Photovoltaic Geographic Information System (PVGIS)", European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC). Online tool available at re.jrc.ec.europa.eu/pvgis.html - PVGIS Ⓒ European Communities, 2000-2020. In this work, hourly data is post-processed into yearly, monthly and daily statistics - and visualized using boxplots. The main focus of PVGIS is photovoltaic solar. Wind statistics are experimental, and have known issues.

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