Motivation: wanted to see daily and seasonal fluctuations for renewable energy for different locations of the world, using hourly data from the PVGIS tool.

Select a location on the map to access post-processed statistics, and use the menu to select another continent. Data from PVGIS version 5.1 is used for weather and PV power, and a simple model is used to assess wind power potential of a site. More accurate wind power models are provided at the Renewables.ninja website. Following re-analysis models are used for North America:

• solar: PVGIS-NSRDB (red)
• wind, at a height of 10m: ERA-interim

We provide post-processed results using data for years 2005 to 2015, with UTC data converted to local time. For solar we model fixed building integrated photovoltaic solar panels with an optimal inclination angle. More solar options can be explored with the PVGIS tools.

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.

Data quality: Wind energy model limitations

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Additional PVGIS publications are available at: ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/PVGIS/about/who.