• DOI:10.1016/J.SOLENER.2012.01.017
Corpus ID: 15435496

Incorporating Shading Losses in Solar Photovoltaic Potential Assessment at the Municipal Scale

@article{Nguyen2012IncorporatingSL,
  title={Incorporating Shading Losses in Solar Photovoltaic Potential Assessment at the Municipal Scale},
  author={Ha T. Nguyen and Joshua M. Pearce},
  journal={Sustainable Technology eJournal},
  year={2012}
}

• Ha T. Nguyen, Joshua M. Pearce
• Published 2012
• Environmental Science
• Sustainable Technology eJournal

Recently several algorithms have been developed to calculate the solar photovoltaic (PV) potential on the basis of 2.5D raster data that can capture urban morphology. This study provides a new algorithm that (i) incorporates both terrain and near surface shadowing effects on the beam component; (ii) scales down the diffuse components of global irradiation; and (iii) utilizes free and open source GRASS and the module r.sun in modeling irradiation. This algorithm is semi-automatic and easy to… Expand