SAN DIEGO — Innovations in online mapping are contributing to the rapid growth of solar energy. The high-tech tools benefit everyone from homeowners and solar-panel installers to the developers ...

Extreme weather patterns could be behind a disparity in power generation from the East and West Coasts of the US, with the East underperforming expectations last year, according to a new report.

Solar irradiation maps showing recent GHI values as the 2023 map can be used as a preliminary and approximate reference, and they can assist in identifying the need for running a more detailed ...

IEA PVPS Task 16 recently introduced SolarStations.org, a global catalogue of solar irradiance monitoring stations designed for researchers, developers, and policymakers. This openly available ...

Coming from the University of California – San Diego is the “California Solar Irradiance Map“, which shows the entire state of California and the amount of energy a horizontally oriented ...

What is needed is not an irradiation map, but a solar PV economic map; a dynamic map that combines the relevant variables, keeps them current and accurately calculates consumer ROI by region ...

Global Horizontal Solar Irradiance Map . NREL. There are other threats to the energy transition. Solar farms, as well as wind farms and energy storage facilities, ...

Analogous solar maps in other US cities usually make one of two mistakes: they either assume that every rooftop is completely flat, or that the ratio between direct and diffuse solar irradiation ...