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Elsevier, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, (28), p. 749-756, 2013

DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2013.08.023

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Decomposing global solar radiation into its direct and diffuse components

Journal article published in 2013 by John Boland ORCID, Jing Huang, Barbara Ridley
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Abstract

To assess the viability of proposed solar installations, knowledge of global solar radiation is not sufficient. For stationary photovoltaic plant, we require global radiation series, but also the contemporaneous diffuse radiation series. Alternatively, for concentrated solar thermal, we need global and direct normal solar radiation. In this paper, we investigate whether one can simply use a model for predicting diffuse radiation using multiple predictions derived by our research team, the Boland-Ridley-Lauret (BRL) model, to give delineations of both diffuse and direct or if we need to use another model for direct or develop a new direct normal statistical model.