Affiliation:
1. Instituto Tecnológico de Sonora
Abstract
Lately continuous usage of fossil fuels has become a significant problem due to environmental pollution coming from the usage of these energy sources. Therefore, this has caught attention around the world, looking to stop getting a worse environmental situation. One energy source that has become popular in the last few years is solar energy which can effectively be utilized as renewable and clean energy. However, reliable is a big problem for this kind of energy due to high intermittency by solar radiation. On this paper, we aim to analyze three regions from Sonora in Mexico to evaluate how good is our numerical weather predictor (WRF-Solar) to forecast solar radiation for a year on semi-arid regions and valley-like region. We used WRF-Solar and weather stations observational data to contrast and evaluate accuracy from our model. This looks to help to get a better focus on solar radiation forecasting on northwestern region in Mexico due to high capability to produce solar photovoltaic energy.
Subject
General Earth and Planetary Sciences,General Environmental Science