Solar Energy Forecasting and Resource Assessment

Solar power is widely acknowledged to be the fastest growing energy industry in the world. Over the last few decades, major hurdles to broader implementation were the cost of materials and low conversion efficiency, but as technological improvements steadily progress toward erasing these barriers, another issue has come to the forefront of public discourse on solar energy--that of intermittency and reliability. Increasing scrutiny from solar project developers and their financiers on the accuracy of long-term resource projections and grid operators' concerns about variable short-term power generation has ensured that the field of solar forecasting and resource assessment has become pivotally important. To date, there has been no comprehensive single text covering this topic, which leaves a lamentable gap in the literature core to this important field. The proposed volume aims to become the authoritative work on the topic, incorporating contributions from an internationally recognized group of top authors from both industry and academia, focused on providing information from underlying scientific fundamentals to practical applications and emphasizing the latest technological developments driving this discipline forward.