Abstract
This study focuses on the solar resource available at Faaa, Tahiti (17.5°S, 149.5°W) thanks to 10 year-long solar irradiance time series. Faaa’s global horizontal irradiance ranges from 14 MJ.m-2.day-1 (June) to 21 MJ.m-2.day-1 (November) in agreement with the sun’s annual path, while clearness index ranges from 0.5 (January) to 0.67 (July), in agreement with the wet and dry seasons. The Global Solar Atlas satellite-derived dataset shows acceptable relative error when compared to Faaa in situ measurements. This product could then be used for other coastal areas of Tahiti. The annual energy output of a single PV module is 256.7 kWh, which corresponds to 7 % of the annual consumption of a typical household in Tahiti. The capacity factor reaches 22.5 %, which makes Faaa a good site for harnessing solar resource.
Highlights
Tahiti is a volcanic island located in the middle of the tropical Pacific (17.5°S; 149.5°W), in the Société archipelagos, French Polynesia
Totals of global horizontal irradiation (GHI) in J.cm-2 over the 2008-2017 period have been considered in this study
- Direct-normal Irradiance (DNI) is the amount of irradiance per unit area received by a plane perpendicular to the rays that come from the sun in a straight line
Summary
Tahiti is a volcanic island located in the middle of the tropical Pacific (17.5°S; 149.5°W), in the Société archipelagos, French Polynesia. The island remains heavily dependent on fossil fuel imports for power generation and transport energy needs. This makes Tahiti highly vulnerable to petroleum price volatility and supply disruptions. Renewable energy production in Tahiti mostly comes from hydroelectric stations (25.7% of the total energy mix in 2015) and from solar panels (4.5 % in 2015). The solar radiation data is derived by Solargis algorithms from satellite images and auxiliary atmospheric datasets. We use ground-based measurements of solar irradiation to assess the solar resource in Tahiti and compare them with satellite-derived values from the global solar atlas
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