- Report
- Solar and Wind
Characterization of extensive city-scale solar power generation
| 2017:388 | Joakim Widén, Gustav Elfving, Emil Jansson, Joakim Munkhammar, David Lingfors
Grid-connected, building-applied solar power has increased rapidly worldwide
over the last decades, suggesting that the cities of the future might not just be
load centers but major power providers.
With large amounts of solar power in the power system, there will be challenges
for both distribution and transmission system operators. Here the solar power variability has been studied on a geographic scale of
1 to 10 km, which is the spatial extent of a medium-sized Swedish city.
The aim of the project has been to develop methodologies for quantifying the variability of aggregate solar power generation from building-applied photovoltaic systems in a city and apply these to characterize city-wide solar power generation.