Recent advances in solar resource assessment in Uruguay

摘要: In the last few years, considerable effort has been invested by the Uruguayan government to increase the amount of renewable energies in its energy matrix. Research and development aiming at introducing solar energy at large scale has been initiated only recently. A ground measurement network for solar irradiation deployed by Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad de la República, started to operate in 2009, and new measurement sites have been continuously added since then. A first characterization of the solar resource was made in 2009, based only on ground data. More recently, in 2011, a pre-existing statistical satellite-based model proposed by Justus, Paris and Tarpley (JPT) has been implemented and adjusted to the Uruguayan territory. An improved version of the model has then been proposed and implemented. These models are built by integrating data from ground measurement networks with …