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Research Article

Multi-Year and Typical Year Data for Solar Energy System in South Korea
Uwineza Laetitia1
,
Hyun-Goo Kim2*
,
Jin-Young Kim3
,
Boyoung Kim4
,
Chang Ki Kim2
1Doctoral Student, Department of Renewable Energy Engineering, University of Science and Technology
2Principal Researcher, New and Renewable Energy Resource Map Laboratory, Korea Institute of Energy Research
3Senior Engineer, New and Renewable Energy Resource Map Laboratory, Korea Institute of Energy Research
4Senior Researcher, New and Renewable Energy Resource Map Laboratory, Korea Institute of Energy Research
*Corresponding Author
30 December 2020. pp. 135-149
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Abstract

Typical meteorological year (TMY) data has significant importance for solar resource assessment, as well as for building performance analysis. The necessity of high-accuracy TMY data has been well known for many years for the financial viability of solar long-term planing project as it represents long-term weather features. However, the TMY does not mean the use of real-time data; it is therefore important to determine the accuracy of the TMY dataset. In this study, the solar energy performance of TMY was evaluated quantitatively by comparing it to multi-year average weather data (2008-2017) based on the statistical analysis method. The PV power output were produced by using 100kW photovoltaic system based on PVsyst software at six sites. The results showed that the difference between the TMY-PV power output and long-term PV power output (measured with percentage error) are smaller than 9%, which means there is close-fit agreement between TMY and long-term averages PV power output. These findings suggests that TMY can provide reliable estimation of PV power in the feasibility study of PV project.

Keywords
TMY
Multi-year
Solar energy performance
Inter-annual variability
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  • Publisher :Korean Solar Energy Society
  • Publisher(Ko) :한국태양에너지학회
  • Journal Title :Journal of the Korean Solar Energy Society
  • Journal Title(Ko) :한국태양에너지학회 논문집
  • Volume : 40
  • No :6
  • Pages :135-149
  • Received Date : 2020-12-06
  • Revised Date : 2020-12-03
  • Accepted Date : 2020-12-03
  • DOI :https://doi.org/10.7836/kses.2020.40.6.135
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