Bhutan Solar Resources

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GIS data for Bhutan's direct normal irradiance (DNI), global horizontal irradiance (GHI), and latitude tilt irradiance. Researchers from NREL and the Atmospheric Sciences Research Center (ASRC) at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Albany developed the estimates of Bhutans solar resource. SUNY researchers generated the estimates of GHI and DNI using images collected at hourly intervals between December 2002 and January 2007 from the European Meteosat 5 and 7 geostationary satellites. NREL used the GHI data to generate estimates of the resource potential at latitude tilt, and to create the solar resource maps. This submission includes GIS resources of the results for this study. This data can be used to help with energy production and infrastructure planning in Bhutan.

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57 This data can be used with ArcGIS or other GIS software. The data included shows global horizontal irradiance from the energy potential analysis of Bhutan. The global horizontal irradiance shows the total solar radiation incident to a horizontal surface at a given location. This sum of radiation includes Direct Normal Irradiance (DNI), Diffuse Horizontal Irradiance, and ground-reflected radiation. https://data.openei.org/files/139/rabhutanglobalhorizontalirradiance.zip
57 This file can be used with ArcGIS or another GIS software. The data includes the latitude tilt irradiance data from the project's estimates of Bhutan's solar resource. The latitude tilt irradiance shows the total solar radiation on a surface with a tilt equal to the surface's latitude. https://data.openei.org/files/139/rabhutanlatitudetiltirradiance.zip
33 This report outlines possible sources and locations for Solar and Wind energy sources in Bhutan. The information provided in this report may be of use to energy planners in Bhutan involved in developing energy policy or planning wind and solar projects, and to energy analysts around the world interested in gaining an understanding of Bhutan's wind and solar energy potential. https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy09osti/46547.pdf
57 This data can be viewed using a GIS software. The data includes Direct Normal Irradiance (DNI) found from the energy potential estimates done in Bhutan. The direct normal irradiance shows the total solar radiation in an area when the area is perpendicular to the sun's rays. https://data.openei.org/files/139/rabhutandirectnormalirradiance.zip

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  • solar-radiation
  • data
  • global-horizontal-irradiance
  • bhutan
  • geospatial
  • direct-normal-irradiance
  • processed-data
  • pv
  • photovoltaic
  • solar
  • latitude-tilt
  • solar-thermal
  • geospatial-vector
  • dni
  • renewable-energy
  • gis
  • solar-irradiance
  • shape-file
  • energy

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