Prefeasibility Study of Photovoltaic Power Potential Based on a Skew-Normal Distribution
- Authors
- Kim, Shin Young; Sapotta, Benedikt; Jang, Gilsoo; Kang, Yong-Heack; Kim, Hyun-Goo
- Issue Date
- 2월-2020
- Publisher
- MDPI
- Keywords
- global horizontal irradiance (GHI); photovoltaic power potential; normal distribution; skew-normal distribution; exceedance probabilities
- Citation
- ENERGIES, v.13, no.3
- Indexed
- SCIE
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- ENERGIES
- Volume
- 13
- Number
- 3
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/57758
- DOI
- 10.3390/en13030676
- ISSN
- 1996-1073
- Abstract
- Solar energy does not always follow the normal distribution due to the characteristics of natural energy. The system advisor model (SAM), a well-known energy performance analysis program, analyzes exceedance probabilities by dividing solar irradiance into two cases, i.e., when normal distribution is followed, and when normal distribution is not followed. However, it does not provide a mathematical model for data distribution when not following the normal distribution. The present study applied the skew-normal distribution when solar irradiance does not follow the normal distribution, and calculated photovoltaic power potential to compare the result with those using the two existing methods. It determined which distribution was more appropriate between normal and skew-normal distributions using the Jarque-Bera test, and then the corrected Akaike information criterion (AICc). As a result, three places in Korea showed that the skew-normal distribution was more appropriate than the normal distribution during the summer and winter seasons. The AICc relative likelihood between two models was more than 0.3, which showed that the difference between the two models was not extremely high. However, considering that the proportion of uncertainty of solar irradiance in photovoltaic projects was 5% to 17%, more accurate models need to be chosen.
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