Session 9 Solar Resource Assessment

Wednesday, 31 January 2024: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
347/348 (The Baltimore Convention Center)
Host: 15th Conference on Weather, Water, Climate, and the New Energy Economy

Papers:
8:30 AM
9.1
Dynamic Wind Loading on CSP Collectors caused by Turbulent Wind Fluctuations: Insights from a 2-year Field Campaign Data Set
Ulrike Egerer, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO; and S. Dana, D. Jager, and S. Yellapantula

8:45 AM
9.2
Three Views of the Impact of Local and Transported Wildfire Smoke on U.S. Solar Energy Resource Availability
Kimberley Corwin, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and C. Corr-Limoges, J. Burkhardt, P. W. Stackhouse Jr., and E. V. Fischer

9:00 AM
9.3
Improving Solar Production Risk Assessment with Climate Trending and Stochastic Simulation
Rob Cirincione, Sunairio, Baltimore, MD; and B. Ho, T. Ivancic, and E. Hewitt

9:15 AM
9.4
Statistical Downscaling and Bias Correction of Future Solar Radiation Projections for CONUS
Manajit Sengupta, Ph.D., National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO; and J. Yang, A. Habte, Y. Xie, D. Nychka, M. Bailey, and S. Bandyopadhyay

9:30 AM
9.5
New Capabilities in the National Solar Radiation Data Base and Their Impact
Manajit Sengupta, Ph.D., National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO; and A. Habte, G. Buster, Y. K. Xie, B. N. Benton, M. J. Foster, and A. Heidinger

9:45 AM
9.6
Enhancing Solar Radiation data using High-resolution GOES Cloud Products
Yu-Konsta Xie, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, GOLDEN, CO; and M. Sengupta, Ph.D., M. J. Foster, and C. Phillips

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