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Solar power forecasting is the process of gathering and analyzing data in order to predict solar power generation on various time horizons with the goal to mitigate the impact of solar intermittency. Solar power forecasts are used for efficient management of the electric grid and for power trading. As major barriers to solar energy implementation, such as materials cost and low conversion efficiency, continue to fall, issues of intermittency and reliability have come to the fore. The intermittency issue has been successfully addressed and mitigated by solar forecasting in many cases.

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  • Solar power forecasting is the process of gathering and analyzing data in order to predict solar power generation on various time horizons with the goal to mitigate the impact of solar intermittency. Solar power forecasts are used for efficient management of the electric grid and for power trading. As major barriers to solar energy implementation, such as materials cost and low conversion efficiency, continue to fall, issues of intermittency and reliability have come to the fore. The intermittency issue has been successfully addressed and mitigated by solar forecasting in many cases. Information used for the solar power forecast usually includes the Sun´s path, the atmospheric conditions, the scattering of light and the characteristics of the solar energy plant. Generally, the solar forecasting techniques depend on the forecasting horizon * Nowcasting (forecasting 3–4 hours ahead), * Short-term forecasting (up to seven days ahead) and * Long-term forecasting (weeks, months, years) Many solar resource forecasting methodologies were proposed since the 1970 and most authors agree that different forecast horizons require different methodologies. Forecast horizons below 1 hour typically require ground based sky imagery and sophisticated time series and machine learning models. Intra-day horizons, normally forecasting irradiance values up to 4 or 6 hours ahead, require satellite images and irradiance models. Forecast horizons exceeding 6 hours usually rely on outputs from numerical weather prediction (NWP) models. (en)
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  • Solar power forecasting is the process of gathering and analyzing data in order to predict solar power generation on various time horizons with the goal to mitigate the impact of solar intermittency. Solar power forecasts are used for efficient management of the electric grid and for power trading. As major barriers to solar energy implementation, such as materials cost and low conversion efficiency, continue to fall, issues of intermittency and reliability have come to the fore. The intermittency issue has been successfully addressed and mitigated by solar forecasting in many cases. (en)
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  • Solar power forecasting (en)
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