
Given the following table of locations (source data from Duffie and Beckman, 2003) and data presented for the Sept/Oct/Nov climate regime, I'd like you to think about the locale in a broader context and suggest SECS that would enable delivery of solar utility at each site. Note that there are two hemispheres represented, so stay alert!
In each of the four sites, we have presented the average day for each month, in terms of:
- daily clearness indices ,
- Degree Days (DD), and then
- average outdoor air temperature (, dry bulb in °C).
Of the four locations presented below, we assume the land/roof space is not area constrained. What would you begin suggesting to a client regarding solar technologies, design, orientation, tracking, etc.? Pick at least two locations for your post.
And yet, you do not know your client here! Whoops. What other factors would you add to this discussion if you knew who your client was in each location?
Place | Sept | Oct | Nov | Sept DD | Oct DD | Nov DD | Sept | Oct | Nov |
Madison WI ( ) |
0.49 | 0.48 | 0.42 | 103 | 232 | 479 | 15 | 11 | 2 |
Albuquerque NM () |
0.70 | 0.70 | 0.66 | 27 | 142 | 346 | 21 | 15 | 7 |
Melbourne Aust () |
0.48 | 0.50 | 0.53 | 181 | 133 | 80 | 12 | 14 | 16 |
Athens Greece () |
0.57 | 0.52 | 0.46 | 5 | 37 | 140 | 23 | 19 | 14 |
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