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Simulation of photo-voltaic power generation using copula autoregressive models for solar irradiance and air temperature time series

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  • Ramírez, Andres Felipe
  • Valencia, Carlos Felipe
  • Cabrales, Sergio
  • Ramírez, Carlos G.

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We propose a methodology for synthetic generation of solar irradiance (shortwave flux) and air temperature time series using copula functions. The use of copulas for the simulation gives flexibility to represent the serial stochastic variability of the solar irradiation and the air temperature affecting the photo-voltaic (PV) panel energy output. Moreover, it allows to have more control on the desired properties of the time series, not only in the temporal and cross-dependencies, but also in the marginal distributions. We use mixtures of zero mass adjusted density distributions to assess the nature of solar irradiance, alongside vector generalized linear models for the bivariate time series time marginal distributions. We found that the copula autoregressive methodology used, including the zero mass characteristics of the solar irradiance time series, accurately models the stochastic phenomena. Experimental analysis with observed data substantiates the usage and convenience of the proposed methodology to model solar irradiance time series and solar energy across the northern hemisphere, southern hemisphere and equatorial zones. These results will improve the understanding of the fluctuating nature of solar irradiance and also help to understand the underlying stochastic process of photo-voltaic energy production.

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  • Ramírez, Andres Felipe & Valencia, Carlos Felipe & Cabrales, Sergio & Ramírez, Carlos G., 2021. "Simulation of photo-voltaic power generation using copula autoregressive models for solar irradiance and air temperature time series," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 175(C), pages 44-67.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:renene:v:175:y:2021:i:c:p:44-67
    DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2021.04.115
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