Abstract
Efforts are exerted worldwide to increase the deployment of renewables specifically solar photovoltaic (PV) systems. One main challenge to face is the perturbation due to the fluctuating nature of the solar energy. The intermittency of the irradiance received by the solar PV systems is mainly caused by the cloud covering the PV system. In this paper a statistical analysis of the received irradiance by a real PV plant as well as the meteorological conditions/parameters surrounding the PV arrays is performed. The meteorological data analyzed include the speed of the cloud, gust, number of clouds passing, width of the clouds, and the time interval between consecutive clouds. One objective of this study is to indicate and adjust the parameters that are to be fed to a Cloud Motion Simulator (CMS); which is a software that simulates the repeated passage of clouds over an electric power system model which includes interconnected PV.
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